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100 00+ + Answe Answers rs Bobby Arora, Arora, Director - KPMG (Big 4 management consulting firm) Written Mar 21, 2016

20,000% times (fro (from m 1997 - 2015) 2015) 1. Occupation: Underpaid software engineer -> Overpaid director at a large corporation month, 1997 2. First salary, year - $125 a month, month, 2015 3. Present salary, year - $25,000 a month, 4. Educational qualifications: Engineer -> MBA I run a personal finance blog called OneMoreDime.com. I increased my net worth from 0 to $1 Million in the last 4 years, and share all the tips and tricks I have learned working on Wall Street. 63.4k 63. 4k Vie Views · View Upvotes Upvote 140

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14lpa.. My first job was as a software developer for an MNC. Offered salary was INR 14lpa Hectic working hours, sometimes asking to work at odd timings to coordinate with teams in Boston or London. I did not belong there. I knew I would be leaving the job in a month or two. Then came

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to my rescue, the joining letter from ISRO. Currently, I’m working with ISRO in the capacity of a scientist in electronics, something I like a lot more than being in the rat race of the corporate world. In terms of money, salary is little less than the previous employer. Motivation: The satisfaction of making an impact out there. 26.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 300


Sikkandar Syed Ibrahim, Ibrahim, works at Core Mind Technologies Written Nov 11

First job & salary : Office boy, year 2003, child labour, 10 dollars per month salary ( 600 rupees ), tamil nadu, india. Current job 2016 Assistant Manager, 2000 dollars, ( 130,000 inr ) dubai UAE.

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Ashish Chandra, Chandra, Knows about Fast food industry Updated Aug 20

1. Occupation: Openstack developer, Cloud Engineer, Kernel Hacker 2. First salary, year: 48K INR 48K INR per month- July 2012 3. Present salary, year: 580K INR per month 4. Educational qualifications: BE (Computers) First Job, NTT DATA, Pune, July 2012 : 48K INR After December, started freelancing, added roughly 20K per month. April 2013 : 55K INR (Promotion) + 30K per month from freelancing Second Job : Reliance Jio,Mumbai, Dec 2013 : 100K INR After July, 2014 again started freelancing, roughly 50K per month August 2014 : 140K (Promotion) + 50K per month from freelancing Third Job : Software Consultant in Dubai, Jan 2015 :360K INR After July 2015, started freelancing, roughly 150K INR per month September 2015: 420K INR (Promotion) + 150K per month from freelancing March 2016 : 480K INR (Promotion) + 100K per month from freelancing Current Salary : March 2016 : 580K INR per month Near Future Salary: April 2016: 480K INR per month (stopping freelancing) So, currently roughly after 4 years of my job, I have 1000% increase in my salary. Btw, I am an Open Source developer, very good in Linux kernel and Cloud Computing. Made sure to ask for raise, if I was beneficial for the company. Always remember, your job or company doesn't loves you, so if you feel, you have done something good, ask for raise. And always keep your parachute ready. Update: August 2016 Future Salary : 0K INR I have quit my job, and would be working for my stealth startup that would deal with educating millions using an adaptive teaching methodologies. Happy to have a friend onboard who is NIT Trichy and IIMC graduate, who believes in our dream and decided to invest his 100% in nurturing it. Together we both have business acumen and tech know how to achieve it. We will be putting our two years into it and our family has no issues in pursuing our dream. We are relocating to a new city, where we can work together with group of people who share the same vision. Thanks to my girlfriend who taught me the lesson goals are more important the people in toto. I would pursue it and as usual she would be my motivation, guiding me every moment. 37.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 294

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Prasanna Sivakumar (ரசன்ன ன வ☌மர்), Working as web based GIS solutions developer @NCSCM Written Oct 16, 2015

Me, 1st job, Cognizant Technology Solutions, 2010 to 2012 CTC - 2.5 lacs PA Now.. NCS CM, Junior Research Fellow,2015 Now https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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Thank god he saved me from hell in this world. 21.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 101


Ashish Chandra, Chandra, Knows about Fast food industry Updated Aug 20

1. Occupation: Openstack developer, Cloud Engineer, Kernel Hacker 2. First salary, year: 48K INR 48K INR per month- July 2012 3. Present salary, year: 580K INR per month 4. Educational qualifications: BE (Computers) First Job, NTT DATA, Pune, July 2012 : 48K INR After December, started freelancing, added roughly 20K per month. April 2013 : 55K INR (Promotion) + 30K per month from freelancing Second Job : Reliance Jio,Mumbai, Dec 2013 : 100K INR After July, 2014 again started freelancing, roughly 50K per month August 2014 : 140K (Promotion) + 50K per month from freelancing Third Job : Software Consultant in Dubai, Jan 2015 :360K INR After July 2015, started freelancing, roughly 150K INR per month September 2015: 420K INR (Promotion) + 150K per month from freelancing March 2016 : 480K INR (Promotion) + 100K per month from freelancing Current Salary : March 2016 : 580K INR per month Near Future Salary: April 2016: 480K INR per month (stopping freelancing) So, currently roughly after 4 years of my job, I have 1000% increase in my salary. Btw, I am an Open Source developer, very good in Linux kernel and Cloud Computing. Made sure to ask for raise, if I was beneficial for the company. Always remember, your job or company doesn't loves you, so if you feel, you have done something good, ask for raise. And always keep your parachute ready. Update: August 2016 Future Salary : 0K INR I have quit my job, and would be working for my stealth startup that would deal with educating millions using an adaptive teaching methodologies. Happy to have a friend onboard who is NIT Trichy and IIMC graduate, who believes in our dream and decided to invest his 100% in nurturing it. Together we both have business acumen and tech know how to achieve it. We will be putting our two years into it and our family has no issues in pursuing our dream. We are relocating to a new city, where we can work together with group of people who share the same vision. Thanks to my girlfriend who taught me the lesson goals are more important the people in toto. I would pursue it and as usual she would be my motivation, guiding me every moment. 37.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 294


Prasanna Sivakumar (ரசன்ன ன வ☌மர்), Working as web based GIS solutions developer @NCSCM Written Oct 16, 2015

Me, 1st job, Cognizant Technology Solutions, 2010 to 2012 CTC - 2.5 lacs PA Now.. NCS CM, Junior Research Fellow,2015 Now https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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CTC- 18000 per month. M. Sc IT M.Tech M.T ech Remote Sensing

I am REALLY Happy now, if you know what I mean. Cheers :) 302.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 871


Anonymous Written Sep 25

First Job 1. Occupation - Worked in Middleware and Cloud Technology 2. Salary Rs. 3,00,000 (CTC) and Rs. 3,00,000 (Allowances) → Total income was around Rs. 6,00,000 3. Year - 2012 to 2014 Second Job 1. Occupation - Worked as SAP Consultant 2. Salary Rs. 12,00,000 (CTC) and Rs. 7,00,000 (Allowances and Shares)

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income was around Rs. 19,00,000 3. Year - 2014 - 2016 Third Job 1. Occupation - Technical Project Manager 2. Salary Rs. 17,00,000 (CTC) and Rs. 11,00,000 (Allowances and Shares) → Total income currently is around Rs. 28,00,000 28,00,000 3. Year - Current year i.e. 2016 Note :1. I felt that I need to write this answer for the world to read because with my profile no one would ever feel that what I have achieved in my 4+ years of experience so far is ever possible. 2. My Background/Profile Class 10 → 85% Class 12 → 65% B.Tech (CSE) → 7.5 GPA (with 3 supplementaries) 3. Was a good student throughout but my 12th standard got screwed up for some personal reasons and I hate to justify it. I was told to drop a year but I went ahead and appeared and in those circumstances, scoring 65% was not that bad at all. 4. Got admission to an extremely ordinary engineering college through management quota (not that high fee as I was supposedly the first batch of the college). 5. Studied hard and focussed on gaining knowledge throughout my engineering days though my marks do not reflect the same. Received few supplementaries mainly because I shared a horrible equation with the management of the college. 6. There were just two prominent companies that had visited for placements and they are L&T Infotech and I-Flex (an Oracle owned company) but I was not allowed to appear for both of those as management never liked me. https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a

7. Passed out in 2011 but did not find a job of my liking ti ll later half of 2012. Was getting many offers but they were sub-standard and had CTCs of less than Rs. 2,00,000 on offer. I never wanted to accept t hose and I didn’t. 8. Struggled immensely in the p eriod between my graduation and employment. Had survived days on just couple of Idlis and a plate of rice (costing under Rs. 30) studying from Morning 8:00 AM to night 9:30 PM. Was in Hyderabad for a month and I remember completing five distinct top notch IT certifications with proper knowledge. I could not appear for exam due to financial crunch but my intention was never to get certified but gain knowledge. I am confident of saying it loud n clear that I did work extremely hard on gaining knowledge of those certifications. 9. Came back to B angalore and got placed with a package of Rs. 3,00,000 but including allowances, I was drawing more than Rs. 50,000 per month. 10. Made a career switch after a couple of years and the salary is mentioned above. 11. Made another job switch after another 2 years and is now working as a Project Manager. 12. Professional Accomplishments → Most

valuable employee regarded by all the companies I have worked for

so far and in all these four years consecutively. I would not disclose the companies I have work for but think of the top 5 dream IT companies and few of them have been my employers → Youngest

Project Manager of my current company with just 4 years of

experience and this is the least I have heard of across industry. → A salary of

Rs. 28,00,000 for a professional of my background is no bad

and I had better salary offers. Accepted this role as it looked interesting on paper. 13. Reasons behind writing this a nswer → My

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14. I had to be “Anonymous” for all the valid and obvious reasons. Hope it motivates few and would eventually, help people succeed :) 198.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 4.3k

Has anyone ever had more than 60% jump/increase in their salary from one job to the next, as an IT specialist?

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Somya Aggarwal, Teach for India Fellow , 2016-18 Written Oct 21, 2015

Hi, I am a student who works part time because I love what I do and the money I get to do this work, makes me love this profession even more :p Physics Tutor : July 2010 : 300 rupees per month Physics tutor : July 2015 : 10,000 rupees per month. And i have not yet started teaching/tutoring full time. I just give 2 hours after college hours to tutoring 3 times a week. Educational qualifications : B.Sc (H) Physics , B.Ed , M.Sc Physics (final year). 24.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 159

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Update: Thank you for the kind words. As many of you requested, I have removed anonymous.

______________________________________________________________________________________ This is my first answer/post on Quora. Thought I should share my experience. Current Role: Data Scientist/ Data Architect in London. Qualification: BCom, BCJ (Journalism) and now pursuing Masters in Data Science as part-time in London. I started working when I was 14 years old, and I’m 35 years old now. I used to do two jobs, so there is overlap in years. Location: Hyderabad, Delhi and London Jobs in chronological order: 1. Paper delivery boy | Salary: 6K INR per Annum | 1996 2. STD/ISD booth boy | Salary: 7,200 INR per Annum | 1996 3. Door to door salesman selling plastic boxes | Salary: 12K INR per Annum | 1997 and 98 4. Tax books salesman | Salary: 18K IN R per Annum | 1997 5. Helper in wine shop | Salary: 22K INR per Annum | 1998 6. Bartender | Salary: 24K INR per Annum | 1998 7. *** Night watchman in Computer Institute | Sala ry: FREE Computer Course *** | 1999 8. DTP Operator | Salary: 30K INR p er Annum | 1999 9. Salesman in Greeting Card Shop | Salary: 39K IN R per Annum | 2000 10. Greeting Card Designer | Salary: 42K INR per Annum | 2000 11. Computer Trainer teaching Graphic Design | Salary: 18K INR per Annum | 2000 12. Graphic Designer | Salary: 80K INR per Annum | 2002 13. Data Analyst | Salary: 2.7 lakhs INR per Annum | 2004 14. Database Developer | Salary: 5.5 lakhs INR per Annum | 2007 15. Senior Developer | 2008 16. SQL/BI Developer | 2011 17. Data Architect | 2014 18. Data Scientist | 2016 Note: There is a dip in salary/pay because I opted for a Data Scientist role instead of sticking to comfort zone. And it is relevant to my DS masters anyway. 40.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 737


Dheeraj Pulavarthy, Digital Marketing Guy Written Jul 19, 2016

113% increase since 2014 :) Occupation: Intern => Management Trainee => Assistant Manager - Digital Marketing at a reputed educational Institute ( Pretty much a Startup :) ) First salary: INR 25,000 Per Month (CTC INR 4.2 LPA) 2014 Present salary: INR 60,000 Per Month (CTC INR 7.75 LPA) Educational qualification: Engineer with a Management Degree. I'm a clueless engineer who took the path of Management. Initially never felt I was the right fit . Discovered power of Digital Marketing, and all of a sudden I realized https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Management concepts do make sense. Joined as a intern in the present company where I'm working right now for 12 months. Received a preplacement offer and joined as Management Trainee for full time got promoted as Assistant Manager - Digital Marketing within one year. So, what's so different about me! I spent most of my time on social networks since 2008. Got thrashed by my dad once for excessive Internet bill ( Because of my excessive browsing habbit bill was generated for 5500 rupees for a 250 rupees BSNL Internet plan) but after stepping into management education I realized that I can create a career path out of which others viewed as a time waste ( This is specific to the circle I have, please do not take it as a generalized statement) Now I have a job which makes me smile on a Monday morning and makes me cringe when I leave my desk on a Saturday evening (We have Six day work week) . I wear multiple hats at work place I closely manage technical and non technical tasks/issues on a daily basis. I'm a firefighter who fights in chaotic startup environment. I teach at my Alma matter :) Interacting with highly energetic budding young mangers helps me in having a different perspective to life which I never had. Sharing what you know is the best thing you can do because knowledge is the only wealth which doesn't get depleted on sharing. Motivation for work : Payday comes once in a month but you have to work rest of the month. If the work doesn't make you happy, you should reconsider / revisit your career decisions. 17.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 47


Sandip More, I chase dreams and not money. Updated Dec 26

Currently CAE Analyst @ Eaton India innovation center, Pune 1. B. E Mech (2008), CTC: 2 LPA 2. Year 2009, CTC: 3.2 LPA 3. Year 2010, CTC: 3.68 LPA 4. Year 2011, CTC: 3.8 LPA 5. Left job, CTC: 0 LPA 6. Year 2012, Got admission for masters at IIT Madras, CTC: Immeasurable 7. Year 2015, got a job as a CAE Analyst at India's automobile OEM, CTC-7.3 LPA 8. Year 2016, Got first increment, CTC-8.4 LPA 9. Year 2016, left Job at OEM, got another one at us based MNC, CTC-10 LPA Quora collapsed my answer for no reason. I am forced to add more information about my CTC. I am honestly not interested in money any more. I wanted to achieve what I dreamed of. Even now I am not paid handsomely as all other iitians get but I am still satisfied what I am getting. That's all. Hope Quora will not collapse it. Thank you :). 44.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 220


Pooja Lapasia, Social Development, Communications Written Aug 8

I work in the Social Development sector, handling programmes and communications. 2008 First job - Content Writer at naaptol.com Salary - 96k p.a. Currently 2016 https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Job - Executive, Sustainability, Godrej Industries Limited Salary - 8lacs p.a. I completed my Bachelor in Mass Media from Mumbai University and immediately took up a job. After couple of years, I was a part of ICICI fellowship, a rural immersion programme for social development. I believe that is where I found my calling. In 2012, after my fellowship I worked for a non-profit with a 4.8lac p.a. CTC. Couple of years later, I started working with Godrej Industries as part of their Sustainability team. 13.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 24

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Ashok Sah, An amateur writer ! Updated Aug 8

Occupation - BSF (BORDER SECURITY FORCE ) Joined in 1980 as a Nayak/Soldier, least rank in para military force. But, being a Soldier was itself a proud moment for him. Salary - ₹ 200 pm.( It was a great start , yes ! You heard it right ) Education - METRIC/ CLASS 10. (2nd devision) Present Salary - ₹58,000 pm.(After 7th pay commission ) Current designation - SI (Sub inspector). Increment - 25000% increase. He's My FATHER , and I am proud of him. Beacuse, he faced all the odds in life to make my life brighter than his. It's all beacuse of his sheer efforts and perseverance. Today, I am an engineer earning a handsome salary.But, I don't know whether I could play a great role like him for my family. H e's my role model. I salute Him. JAI HIND ! 16.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvoted 236


Anuranjan Tirkey, studied at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Updated Jan 12

2012 - Graduated from IIT Kharagpur (Biotech) - Unplaced - 0 PA 2012 - Joined Startup incubated at IIMA - UI Designer - 60,000 PA 2012 - Joined Financial Advisory company - Equity Research Analyst - 6,00,000 PA 2013 - Joined IIM Kashipur 2015 - Joined Startup - Cofounder - 9,00,000 PA + 20% Equity ( 2 Cr seed funding) 2016 - Joined a Tech base d Product company- Senior Analyst - 16,00,000 PA What I’m doing with this life… Humour IQ | Facebook 45.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 336


Vivek Nagarajan, Hack of all arts, faster at some. Written Oct 19, 2015

Occupation: Programmer (I hate the terms developer or software engineer) First salary (2002): Rs. 12000 - First job was at a startup Present Salary(2015): Rs. 230000 - Now I freelance for a US based firm. This is an increase of almost 19x but the value of the rupee has dropped about 2.5x , so that https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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makes 7.5x actual increase in income. Educational qualifications: high school dropout! Job satisfaction: Whatever I worked at, whether at a startup or freelance, I always loved the work itself. Conditions may have been annoying sometimes, but work was always very satisfying. I have been working from home from 2005 onwards and I think I have the best possible working conditions a man could ask for. Does money bring happiness? Of course it does - I have been able to live a great life without worrying about expenses. 15k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 66


Jitin Babu, Invest today to add a bullet point in your Resume Written Dec 18

Back in 2009, when I graduated to become a Computer Engineer, I was placed in Accenture during the campus placements. The average annual salary was close to INR 325,000, i.e. ~INR 27,000/month. But I wanted to pursue a career in finance and forego my Accenture offer and searched for a job in financial services. Finally after several rejections, i got a job offer from Sharekhan which was paying me INR 132,000 annually, i.e. INR 11,000 per month. Fast forward 6 years, 1 year in sharekhan, a 4 year stint in Standard Chartered and an MBA degree from Indian School of Business, I am currently working with a MNC bank with an annual salary of INR 2,500,000. Thats an increase of ~1800% from my first salar y, or 19x my first salary. 30.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 227


Arjun Sreekumar , Inspirational talker and student Updated Oct 29

I’m gonna wrote this answer on behalf of my dad! He’s the best person on the planet and I love him so much. He’s a perfect example to prove that your logic and attitude can make life work for you. He earned his first cash during his XIth grade when he started taking tuitions for kids in the lower classes because against the typical Indian Stereotype of boys being favored, his sister was the pet in his family. All that his dad made was being spend on their daughter while they never gave a shit about him (honestly, he nearly cried while telling me this!). Wanna know to what extent his sister was favored? He bought a pair of slippers with the money he earned through tuitions and his mom whipped and scolded him. What was the reason? Why did you spend the money for yourself? You should've bought your sister a pair of slippers and he never wore those slippers! He used to walk barefoot to college, worked hard, worked overnight at mechanical shops to support his study and finally finished his ITI course. Next after graduation, he joined ITI as a teacher and earned approx 500 Rs if my memory is right! But he wasn't happy! Took a risk, took a train to the dream city of every Indian, Mumbai! There he was outside VT station, jobless! He found one of our distant relatives and stayed there till he found a job. He found a job at some small mechanical shop for Rs 60/month. And he used to eat those Dal Chaawal at 50 paise or 1 Re for lunch. He found another job which paid him 250 rs/ month. He jumped to that job and he wasn't very happy as well. My Dad suffered a lot in those premier days as the pay was small and he was supposed to send a part of his salary to his parents. Thats when there was a walk in interview for a technician at Hawkins. He joined Hawkins and made his entry into the 1K club. He earned 1025 Rs/month. But the https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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previous employer was sad that he left because a skilled technician with such practicality was hard to find. So my dad worked for him after office hours at Hawkins without any pay. And then he joined Eureka Forbes later on to earn approx 1600 Rs/month. And then there was a great twist in his life. He went regularly to Infress Methodex to clean/service an aquaguard filter. Since he was a regular at Infress for the service of water purifiers, his work was noted because my Dad is a man of perfection. So one day, this technical manager of Infress came up to him and told him “Are you interested to learn a new skill? How long are you gonna service these purifiers? I think you have great potential.” He was called for an interview the very next day and when asked about his salary expectations, in a very modest manner, replied 2700 Rs (just 100 Rs more than Forbes!) and when he received his offer letter, he saw a pay package of 3600 Rs/month With other perks. He became one of the best technicians Infress ever had! There were only two people who could solve any problem. It was my dad and some other g uy. And nah, he wasn't happy with 4500 Rs as well (eventually his salary went up till 4500, one of the highest for a technician in the company). He saw this ad for a technician for a reputed company in Bahrain (which is where we are currently based!). He applied and immediately got the job after the interview and his pay package was a beautiful 200 BHD (According to present rates, 200 BHD = 3 6,000 Rs.) He has been working there since then and now he’s earning approx 3 lakhs per month with other allowances like health, house rent, car etc etc. Now that's how I’d define success. His payment increase? From Rs 500 (his tuition earnings) to Rs 3 lakhs! A 2.995 Lakhs per month increase! Want an example on how to make a lemonade when life throws lemons at you? Cheers! 13.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 58

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Uday Dhoot, works at IntyGritty Financial Solution Written Jul 21, 2016

Its interesting to read all the answers here :) Occupation: Financial Advisor & Wealth Manager First Salary (year 2003): So my first job was for Rs. 60000 per year (roughly around $1300 per year), this was right after my under grad in management & finance. Last Salary (Year 2015): I was in the same organisation for almost 12 years, my last drawn salary was in the range of around Rs. 30– 40L (roughly around $ 60,000 per year). Qualification: During my career of last 13 years, I did the CFA & CIPM Prog from CFA Institute, USA and also the CFP prog from FPSB, India. Present Salary (2016): None “0”:) , became an entrepreneur for the 3rd time :) Back to basics, back to ground zero. Few lines from my favourite poem IF by Rudyard Kipling: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone,


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And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ 6.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13

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From, 6 lakhs per annum in 2010 to 29 lakhs per annum in 2 016 Going Anonymous as can’t reveal salary as per policy. Rs. 1.2 lpa, 2006–2008, Operations Executive in Education Industry First job post graduation as Operations Executive with a CAT coaching institute CAT 99+ percentile, MBA (not an IIM), 2008 -2010 Rs. 6 lpa, May 2010, Risk Analyst with an NBFC First job post MBA in a post sub prime crisis era Rs. 7.5 lpa, Nov 2010, Business Analyst in a KPO Switch to another company Rs. 9.5 lpa, Aug 2011, Business Analyst in the same KPO Top performer and a very good hike at first appraisal Rs. 12 lpa, Aug 2012, Manager in the same KPO Promoted to Manager. Top performer and again >20% hike Rs. 15 lpa, Aug 2013, Business Head in the same KPO Grew division business to 1 million USD from 80k USD in 2 years Rs. 18 lpa, Mar 2014, Manager Big Data Analytics in a startup Switch to another company Rs. 20 lpa, Nov 2014, Manager Big Data Analytics in the same startup Top performer and a very good hike at first appraisal Rs. 25 lpa, Nov 2015, Manager Big Data Analytics in the same startup Rs. 29 lpa, Nov 2016, Manager Big Data Analytics in the same startup My simple rule is always be the top performer in the team, and keep learning and evolving. 65.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 695


Victor Castillo, Not lot of experience, just enough to write about it. Written Jan 4

600% times (from 2012 - 2016) 1. Occupation: (Ultra Junior) Web developer -> Software developer (in a lot of programming languages for the current company) 2. First salary, year - $250 a month, 2012 3. Present salary, year - $1,500 a month, 2016 4. Educational qualifications: High school (Business school soon) I’m a software developer, mainly focused on web development since I was 14, now I’m 19 4.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Written Oct 12

About Qualifications : Did Diploma in Electronics Engineering after 10th from Government Polytechnic Did B.Tech in ECE from State Government Engineering College (Completed B.Tech before the age of 20) Placement : Got offers from 3 Companies (1 Wellknown Software Company and Other 2 Telecommunication Companies) during campus placement. Decided to join Telecom Company ( Reason : Posting in state capital, big brand name, core Telecom etc.) Salary: First year as a GET 3.5 LPA+Benefits (Age ~20 Years) Second year as an Assistant Manager 4.25 LPA + Benefits Third Year 4.76 LPA + Benefits Fourth Year 5.78 LPA + Benefits Final Year in this company ~7 LPA Now I am 24 , no more interested in this so called corporate sector life. Future : Recently got selected as a Lecturer and now I am going to teach future Engineers. Salary : 15600 + 5400 GP (PB-3) + Simple and brief life. 13.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 77

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Udayvir Singh, A trainer, Manager, Hindi Officer, Blogger and a web designer Updated Dec 29

Hard to believe….! A journey from 12k to 12L per annum. 2005: My First salary was ₹ 1000/- per month or ₹12000/- per annum as a teacher in a private school, when I was hardly 20 year old. 2006: Again teaching in govt Primary school on contractual basis and salary wad 2400 X 12 = 28800/- per annum. 2007: left my job and took admission in B.Ed. thus, No salary. 2008: Home tutor and my earning was ₹ 4000/- per month. Yes, it was ₹ 48000/- per annum. 2009: Selected in a public sector Bank as an executive on contractual basis and salary was ₹ 12000/- per month for first year , ₹ 13500/- for second year and ₹ 15000/- for third year. You can say ₹ 144000/- to ₹ 180000/- per annum. 2012: Resign from the contractual Bank job and again selected in a nationalise Bank as a Probationary Officer (PO). This time salary was just double. Yes, you are right near about ₹ 27000/- per month or ₹3.50 lakh per annum. 2013: One more resignation and this time got job in a central govt PSU (A Maharatna Company) and my salary was ₹ 55000/ - per month. Yes Friends, CTC was more than ₹ 7.5 lakh.

2014: Promoted as an Assistant Manager, accordingly salary was ₹70000/- per month. Hence, the CTC Crossed the Magical limit of ₹ 10.00 lakh per annum. 2016: with incremental effect now my CTC is ₹ 11.50 lakh per annum. So you can say, it is a mind blowing career journey till now. In 2005 the salary was ₹ 12000/-

per annum and now in 2016 it is ₹ 11.50 lakh with 9600% increment.


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I want to say one thing - keep learning new things, update yourself and always be ready to take risk and challenges. Definitely your salary will be increased. You won't believe I have no technical or professional degree. I am just M.A in Hindi language and literature and another is teaching degree course.

Now, I would like to tell you something about my educational background: 10th : 63% 12th : 55% (once I was failed in 11th class) Graduation : 52% Post Graduation : 69% (during my first Bank job) I have acquired all these educational qualifications from pure govt Schools and colleges in Hindi medium only, where my annual tution fees was ₹ 150 to ₹ 1600/- only. The total expenditure of my all educational qualifications from KG to PG was hardly ₹ 30000/- including books etc.

Now come to the main point. If you are ready to struggle and honestly passionate toward your goal with hard work, there is no doubt that you can get handsome salary without any professional or high demanding degree like engineering or MBA etc. Good luck and cheers…! 25.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 401


Anonymous Written Oct 24

20x in 8 yrs with an engg d egree in biotech from an avg college , then back to half of it and……… again back to 30x now in total 10.5 yrs! First salary : 1.5 lakh per annum Feb.2006 Present salary : 43 LPA Sep.2016 Education : BTech-Biotech Occupation : Engineer turned Corporate strategy guy who does M&A for Pharmabiotech. 1. As a biotech engineer who took risk in 2002 when biotech was not that big a buzz word and it was considered to be like the next upcoming IT industry type boom and miracle - which never happened in India. Being an engineer makes me one of the millions out there on Quora, but doing it in Biotech in 2006 makes me probably very few out of those millions. So this question, though with already many answers, prompted me to spell out my story. 2. My journey : Coming from a real modest background from one of the most backward parts of India (Bundelkhand). (i got to know about use of this word Modest instead of poor only when i came into the ‘well to do guys’ circle !) a. I am the 4th and youngest child in the family , who started schooling in late 80s in a below average school where I remember that many of my friends were from real poor background such as kids of auto drivers, food handcart guy and so on. b. I was an excellent student upto 12th , but failed twice in cracking JEE due to lack of focus and not being able to afford good coaching. c. Cracked AIEEE , got into an average college, tried to transform myself in those 4 yrs , and chose not to try my luck in routine IT companies. d. Started my career in a consulting startup , worked my ass off to prove myself and rose my way up the ladder. e. Changed job when I got complacent with 3 promotions in 3 yrs.Worked with biggest pharma -biotech companies of India https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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f. Joined another startup doing Drug discovery with half the salary in 2013 , took risk but failed , accepted g. Back to second largest pharma with a larger role (few months back) 3. My learning in all of these years - The only thing that helps you grow is : “Hardwork-Hardwork-Hardwork in present with an eye on future” while being honest to yourself 12.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 83

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S Reddy, 6+ Years of experience into IT, Knows a thing about IT companies in INDIA. Updated Sep 21

From INDIA, a software engineer's story as it happened. My First pay was 4000 INR per month in 2009, October……… and currently drawing 1.3+ Lakh per month after ~7Y, 2016…. Too long, DR !! I'm a MCA postgraduate with 73% aggregate from a very rural college. I've gone to Hyderabad for my last semester “Project” work , been there for six months learning .net. Went back to college to submit a crappy Project which my 'institute' provided me. Trust me, neither me nor the practical invigilator does know a thing about the project that I've submitted. I graduated with great CGPA - 7.3 , that's great achievement for me though. NO CAMPUS PLACEMENTS in our college and NO OFF-CAMPUS placements too in surrounding areas. I doubt the management even know what it is. I don't blame them, that college is my choice :) (Read it as ONLY option, though I've secured not so bad entrance rank - 90th percentile, my LAST name didn't allow many colleges in counselling). While I'm in Hyderabad, I've joined MahindraSatyam as a BPO executive for 4k INR per month in 2009 ~ August. Been there for two months and quit as it doesn't suit my interest. “Obviously” Went to Bangalore, prepared a beautiful resume and started proper job hunt. It was a huge recession time and every interview I attend end up with a false note. They want me to pay money to employ me. I did apply every opportunity available , Attended Accenture, HCL, Mphasis off campus, cleared almost all the technical rounds, but didn't make it at the end. This went in for 4 months !! After 4 months stint in Bangalore, One fine day, my friend/Schoolmate called me asking my profile to refer to the company his brother was working in. That's totally unexpected call from him as it was our first conversation after 10 Yrs of our last contact. We were in touch in Facebook for past year or so, he has got my contact from FB. After all, Facebook is not bad :) Things went fine and I was SELECTED for that company, it's an US based company as an entry level developer p osition ~ 2010 February, Pay was 2.6LPA INR , **That's my HAPPIEST moment till now !!!** It's a product based organization with 8k employees globally when I've joined . Awesome colleagues with an uber cool manager made ordinary things look sooo wonderful. Awesome work culture and amazing technical growth ensured that I was never dissatisfied. Been there for 3.5 Y and resigned with 4.8Lpa. Resigned the company without any offer in hand due to some complications, probably due to over confidence that I can get a job in that 3 month notice period. I did, but not the ones I was really interested. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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After 2months - Joined Accenture in 2013 after many struggles with ~8LPA INR including bonus. Since I've worked on multiple technologies in my first organisation, selected the most in demand and prepared my resume accordingly to get into Accenture. It was a wonderful experience with ample opportunities to learn. Utilized every single opportunity and learnt as much as I can. After a while, technical growth became saturated. Quit Accenture after - Close to 3Y With the pay ~11Lpa INR. My IT experience was then 6.4Y (June 2016) This time I've had an offer in hand and then Resigned. Waited for two more months , though I've cleared all the interviews that I've attended , I was selective about joining companies. It's MY TURN now, got offers from all the IT service organisations, rejected them at will. None of them were aligned with my interests. The very companies I admired in the beginning were no longer interesting. I’ve Rejected TCS, Wipro, Infosys, IBM, Cognizant, Mphasis…..etc due to either pay or work profile. At some point I was scared that I was being senseless, over confident. But still waited for right moment. After few tensed weeks, came an offer from premier US based INVESTMENT BANKING Company with ~16 - 17 LPA INR. And my total exp. Is 6.6Y into DatawareHousing Analytics. Conclusion - Don't give up hope, take every opportunity and try to mould it to your interest. Quit at right time !! Though You don't like it initially, give your best shot !! Still not interested ? QUIT it !! Don't waste your time convincing yourself. Never settle !!! There are no written guideline s to grow professionally/financially, trust your self as you are the one to judge Your position. Stay away from negative people as much as possible. Many people with less experience might be earning much more pay than me, but what I'm right now is at my best……. “ That person, at that moment, In that condition” is the right one to decide, IT'S YOU !!! All the best ! 192.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 1.5k


Anonymous Written Mar 17, 2016

Year 2015Age- 35 Role- Principal Architect, 10 year SAP experience Location- California Base- $125k/year,Bonus- $50k/year Incentive - approx. $15k/year Stocks- $25k/year

Year 2005 Role - software intern Delhi India


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Total - USD 4000 per year 17k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 29


Anonymous Updated Sun

Education Qualification : Masters from one of the Top 100 University in the World (Prior to that Engineering and Diploma in India) Occupation : Software Engineer in Bangalore, India First Salary: July 2014 : 18,200 INR per month (After Deduction) worked for 2.5yrs Current Salary : Dec 2016: 58,300 INR per month (After deduction) First job was a contract role in a product based organisation in Bangalore, India. (Top 2 networking company in the world) Second Job after 2.5yrs with 20%hike in Product based organisation in Bangalore, India.(Top 5 software company in the world) Why did I go for 20% hike? Just to switch from Contract role to a permanent one. Edit: Adding company’s reputation. Thanks 2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Balaji Alwar , Software engineer to a teacher Written Oct 19, 2015

In 2013, First job at Ericsson India Global services at a package of 4.5 lakhs. In 2014, Package increased to 5.3 lakhs per annum. In 2015, Next job as a fellow at Teach For India at a package of 2.75 lakhs. 17.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 149


Anonymous Updated Jul 25, 2016

Since I have joined my first job this year only, I don’t have a hike, But I would like to frame this answer for my father. In year 1978, he joined army as Sepoy. He started his job with a salary of Rs. 174. In year 2008, he retired from army and at that time he earns around Rs. 22,000. In year 2009, he started job as watchman in a bank and earns about Rs. 7,000. So , I will take into count : start as 174 and End as 7000. It results into increase of 4022.98 %.. I am proud of my father, the way he has grown and made me capable too. He made me an Engineer and capable of earning 70,000 ₹ per month.This is my first salary of June ,2016. I think I will never be able to hit like him. Year 2016, he earns Rs. 79,000 (70,000 + 9,000), because whatever I earn, he has more right on it than me Thankyou Dad 248.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 17.3k


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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Written Nov 3

Education: B.E- Mechanical Engineering College: Tier 3 Field of work:Automotive Industry-OEM Location:Chennai Department:Supply chain & logistics/Industrial engineering Professional experience: 4 years Phase I–2012: Company: TVS Campus placement:Converted TCS and TVS,but opted for TVS for single reason-core company CTC:1.44 LPA as trainee Unlike others experience on training, I was lucky enough to get proper and intense training on all business aspects/ verticals within the organisation. Phase II, 2013–2016 Company: Daimler India- Mercedes Benz/Bharatbenz 2013–2.5 LPA After completing 1 year at TVS, I received an offer from Daimler and my ever supporting manager asked me to grab the opportunity as it was like once in a lifetime opportunity for freshers.With an average academic background and newbie to industry this offer was a dream offer which was very hard to reject.I happily accepted the offer and joined Daimler-cloud nine moment for any core engineers. Monetary benefits 2014–3.5 LPA 2015–8.4 LPA- Salary correction Non-Monetary benefits Best in class minds,extremely supporting/open minded bosses and healthy working environment. Phase III, Present Company: Renault After 3 brilliant years at Daimler I took up assignment with Renault. It is all together a completely different field of work which looks promising and I grabbed the offer. Current CTC –10 LPA+ This is my career trajectory so far. When compared to software field,compensation in the initial phase of career for core engineer cannot be compared.But as one gets exposure to the field of work and climbs up career ladder,compensation and perks will be extremely or more competitive than software industry.Also work life balance in core field anyday is way better than software industry. To all core engineers who are looking out for proper engineering jobs,initial phase of job hunting can be extremely tough,tiring and frustrating .Patience and positive attitude holds the key of success in engineering field 10.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 62

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Anonymous Updated Oct 19, 2015

I started my earning by distributing Ad pamplates in malls to do my final year engineering project. That was my first income, 150 rupees per day. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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After rejected by top software IT companies, I finally found my first job which paid me 7 thousand per month 2004- First earning for 150/day, earned around Rs.10,000 2005- First job 84 Thousand/annum 2007 - second job 4.2 Lakhs/annum 2011 - Third job 12.3 Lakhs/ annum 2012 - fourth job 17.5 Lakhs/annum 2013- fifth job 33.18 Lakhs/ annum 2015 - sixth job 47.85 Lakhs/ annum My salary raise from Rs.150/day to Rs13,110/day. Currently, I head an engineering team in Bangalore, in all my career I never ran behind money, concentrated over my career and learning new technology. Edit : I could see few, asking how you got from 17 to 33, I never consider money as factor while choosing the job. This helped me a lot as a strong techie and we'll known person in the Industry. FYI, I rejected 55L offer from a IT frim and took my current job, which pays me 47.8L 25.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 225


Prashant Dinkar , EE, Graduated @ IIT Gandhinagar; To be among a few Written Nov 12

More than 1200% in a year and being a freelancer - since college days . First-month salary = Rs 940 /Average salary per month calculated for one year duration (2015–16) = Rs 12500 /-

(Image Source - Google Images) I started working as a freelancer when I was in the third year of my college. Started freelancing following my interest and the main objective was multifaceted To work on my interest which can be pursued later. Getting acquainted with it To get a feel of corporate world being own boss. To make some money with my own effort. The last one was more important when I started working because of following reasons (others are important too - in long term):


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Firstly, I never gave any party in my college days until the end of the 5th Semester (for 2.5 Years)because I did not feel to do a party on my parent’s hard earned money. I attended other’s party (:p - I was duly invited :D) and hence I was supposed to do the same but I was helpless at that time (in the crunch of money). (Remember partying and such stuff is an integral part of college life). But I always said to my friends - Take as many parties as you want from me once I start earning, but I cannot give you party from my parent’s money. Though I got many party :D Secondly, I was going to take deferred placement (and took it) so I started saving some money which could be used post degree. And yes, it’s very much useful these days. Thirdly, the joy of paying semester fees from earned money and that too college days - was immense. When did I feel happy on the way! When I paid the semester fees. When I sent money home for the first time (though small). When I spent more on myself (which I always tend to avoid earlier). When I gave the first party from Rs 940 :D to my friends (I strictly asked them to restrict the overall party budget to Rs 940/- only, though they made it to Rs 1200/-, managed later from next month earnings ;) ). The joy of giving the first party following my own principle was immense . And finally saved some money for my own use and part of my current expenditure gets paid via this. Nowadays, I am not able to give much time toward my freelancing work, though when I give, I make sure that I put my 100% in that time - usually 3–4 hours a week (not day :)! ) :) 12k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 37


Ajay Ashok, Udaan Academy of Leadership and Excellence. *[email protected]* Written Oct 24

Umm, I could see some huge figures below, even though mine is not in the ballpark but still here it goes: Age:22 Location: Bangalore First company: A mid sized MNC dealing in channel data management. Occupation/Designation: Associate Analyst - Channel/Logistics Intelligence First salary: 1.6 Lac/annum. Post 6 months: 2.4 Lac/annum. After a year : 3.12 Lac/annum. Changed my job! Current firm: One of the fortune 500 companies. Current Occupation/designation: Business Analyst. Present salary (Total exp:1.3yrs) : 4.60 Lac/annum. Total hike from my first pay: 187.5% in 1.3yrs :) Not great, but satisfied.


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Educational qualification: BBA from a mediocre college in Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu, India). Pursuing MBA through distance mode from ICFAI university. 6.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 21


Deepak Singh Bisth, I used to work in Talwalkars. Written Jul 12, 2016

Well its going to be a bit hard but let me try. Since I started working at the age of 10 and I was learning mechanical work in an automobile shop, I used to get 20 bucks a week along with food and accommodation. I have been involved in a lot of different professions since then. 1. Occupation - Helper at an automobile shop. 2. First salary - 20 INR/week + food and accommodation , year - 1990. 1. Occupation - Sales Manager at a supplement Store. 3. Present salary - 15,ooo the last time I worked for someone else, year - 2015 4. Educational qualifications - School Dropout. Certified Fitness Trainer. 8.5k Views · View Upvotes · Answer requested by 1 person Upvote 38


Ashraff Syed, Software Engineer by profession; still in search of Passion of life Written Jul 22, 2016

To get down to nitty gritty of our question, my answer is: 216.67%. Now for the additional details, I will be adding a sentence or two, to elaborate the circumstances arising for pursuing the same. Before going into the details, let me give a little background of myself. I am one of those people in this world who gained maturity about the things(many things) that really matter, at a later stage in life. I am one of those ordinary people, whose heart lies in a different field than the one in which presently working. Educational qualifications: B.Tech. graduate from ECE branch. No particular reason here, just went along with the crowd. But during four years of graduation, developed immense love for the subject. Occupation: Software Engineer with 3.2 years experience. The reason behind this is 51% chance and 49%(immature)choice. First salary: 3 Lakhs Per Annum. But after all the cuttings, it went down to 19000 per month. Receiving the first salary was one of the few times I felt a little sense of accomplishment in me. Present salary: 9.5 Lakhs Per Annum. This is my second company. Not even a month passed after my first switch. Have to yet receive salary to find out, how much I’ll be earning per month. Coming from my part of the world, that too from a middle class family, having your salary increased by more than 200% is really a very big thing. As for me, personally I don’t have any feeling towards this thing. I only felt a higher digit number is used in ten-thousands place to count my salary per month. It didn’t feel anything different, even when my well-wishers congratulated me on my unusual(or not?) accomplishment. Not until I felt the happiness this created in my parents’ lives. They felt much happier, not because of the money, but for the fact that I have become something worthy of feeling really proud of. 9.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 25


Mohsin Anees, HeadHunter By Profession, Learner By Birth !! Written Nov 21, 2015

Precisely 29 times take home salary (excluding perks, benefits, incentives), since 2006 to present.


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1. Occupation: Customer Service Executive 2. First salary, year: 3200 INR/pm - May 2006 3. Present salary, year: close to 6 figures INR/pm - Nov 2015 4. Educational qualifications: Bachelor's of Science in Bio Technology (My job has nothing to do with it) I started my career back in the summers (may) of 2006, while I was still graduating for my bachelor's degree in IInd year, I worked for Bharti Airtel (A telecom giant in India) as a customer care exec for an inbound process in technical unit, I was paid 3,200 INR (take home), I worked there till 26th of Oct until I met a road accident and broke 3 bones of my right leg, I kept whining, why it happened to me, I had just begun you see. Too little did I know, after an year of that incident I got hired for an IT Recruitment company that paid me thrice of what I was making there in my first job, Luckily all they needed was somebody who's willing to wear multiple hats and always ready for a challenge. During the interview (3rd/Final round) I was speaking to Americans over the phone for the most important interview of my life and I didn't know anything about their Culture, Accent anything... I kept speaking with eagerness for the job, and a strong will to do anything it takes, though my hands were shaking.. I still get goosebumps thinking about it :( As it turned out they liked my spirit and selected me out of the other 48 participants for the interview and I got into this line of work. My present salary is close to 6 figures now so, within the past 9 years I've grown 29 times of my first salary. Ironically, I was able to save 12gs while working for Airtel making 3.2gs for only 6 months, that got me through the intervening period between the jobs, now I'm 30, making good enough but I don't have any savings (Obviously some, but not anywhere close to what I should have had) I believe the mantra is to have faith and know everything happens for a reason, never leave any stone unturned. If I hadn't met that accident, I might have still been working there and making max 30-40k like the other colleagues who are still working there. 10k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I am a Data Scientist by profession. First job, 2011 - 2013 1.9 LPA as an contract employee Second job, 2013 - 2013 4.5 LPA in Service based IT company Third job, 2014 - 2015 13 LPA in Product based startup After promotion and appraisal salary revised to 18 LPA(excluding stocks) Fourth job, 2015 - ... 42 LPA in Product based startup

So, in all I went from 1.9 LPA to 3.5 LPM in 4 years. How? Well I played a very smart move in the beginning when I moved to Data Science domain because it was a trending domain and not much people were aware of it. So, I https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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tool a leap of faith and changed my profile to align with it, studied a lot, kept myself updated about latest in data domain. And of course I was lucky enough to find the right companies.

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Anonymous Written Oct 30, 2015

Wow, lots of answers from India here. I'm from the United States, graduated from a top 10 University in 1998, and am currently a C-level executive for a mid-sized business. I've only had 2 jobs since graduation, but can list my pre-college jobs as well if anyone is interested. First job: Management Consultant, 1998 Starting salary: $46,500/year Salary upon leaving: $145,000/year (includes bonuses), 2003 Second job: C-level tech executive at startup, 2004 Starting salary: $80,000/year Current salary: $200,000/year (includes bonuses) +Ownership stake Educational Qualifications were very important for attaining job#1 (which only recruited very selectively from a few schools), but after that did not matter much. Degree was general engineering with concentrations/minors in business, statistics, and computer science (took an extra 50 credits, hence the multiple minors). 8.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 21

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Sunderdeep Singh, CEO, Prinspire Technologies Written Sep 26

Long answer short: My Salary has increased 35 times in last 6 years. (From 7K to 2.5 lacs) Occupation: Owner, Prinspire Technologies First Salary: Rs 7000, Year: 2009, Dot Technologies, Panchkula Present Salary: Annual Turnover of around 30 lacs (2.5 lacs per month) for last 3 years Education Qualifications: Diploma in CSE from GNDP Ludhiana, B.Tech in IT from BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib.


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Other Experiences: Worked as Programmer Analyst at Cognizant, Chennai for 2.4 years. (2010–2012) My success journey link is in profile bio :) 6.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 34

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Ajit Narayan, Author by night, PR professional by day. Updated Mar 2, 2016

(Edit: This answer was posted before the original question was edited and posed only to mechanical engineers) From one disaster to another After wasting 3 years of my life in college and barely managing to graduate (43.25% in BSc Statistics), I was fortunate to land up with a job as a writer at an Internet startup. I took no time in forgetting what I had 'not' learnt in college and focused on working my ass off to make my mark. Secretly I was just glad to learn that I was employable and

coud earn a living . But then recession struck in 2008-09 and I found myself in the midst of total chaos. Change in attitude It was a trial-by-fire for all of us, but I guess the gruelling 3 years in college had toughened me up and I felt the only way I could survive the storm was by focusing on 'growth'. I threw things like 'comfort' and 'work-life balance' out of the window and took a lot of risks, evolving from being just a writer to a digital marketing professional and now am full-time into PR & Communications. The growth In 8 years, I have achieved 'around' 3000% growth in salary. And could e asily jump ship and rightaway take the percentage to 4000%, but the qualities that brought me here are the ones that also tell me "money doesn't matter, just continue doing what is right". Today, I feel the right thing to do is to do justice to my current role working with my cu rrent employer. No freelance When employed full-time at a company, I never did any freelance work. Hence the 'around' 3000% growth has been achieved working only one job at a time. Back to my first love I have re-discovered my love for writing. The learnings in my 8 years of career were fantastic. I have tried to capture it in a book that I recently published. See if you find it useful: Mind The Age. Avoid Mistakes Others Make. eBook: K N AJIT NARAYAN: Amazon.in: Kindle Store 35.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 36

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I am going anonymous because this is not my story and i don’t want any credit. He is an admin of facebook group BJS i will leave the link of the group below. Here: I have 3.6 years of Exp. and writing this is like Reminding me what I was and now What I am. As it is kind of untold story but I am sure will gonna help and boost you like anything. specially those who are weak in English. My Fb Name is Serene Aspire but My real name is Prashant Kumar. Lets start now. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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17 -June - 2013 Landed in Banaglore as My joining was on 06-Aug-2013 some xyz company. The day before my joining I came to know company is delaying for the joining. After come to know this news was blank. Very upset I already informed my parents I got job suddenly I cant say I dont have job now. I was Avg. student But in 7th sem I went to HYD for Java I have learned java in only 2600 Rs(Ameerpet hope most of the techie aware of this place). I was good in java but weak in apti. When I got joining delay news I was socked yaar. I dont know anyone in banaglore I was staying in BTM which is best place for job seekers. You guys dont believe in 2 months I didnt got any company call no friend nothing communication gap was there. when ever getting call only consultancy that too after going they will ask for money. So i came to know they are just like that later on i started ignoring. 3 months went I started taking money from my friends that time already was having browed like(20 to 25K) and counting was going on. I was not able to concentrate on my study coz I am a guy and we know what is the problem with us we have to look for our family as well. I dont wanna share much about family coz what they did for me was more than my expectation not with money with emotion they always with me. Let me tell you I was having a loan of 3.75 Lakhs when I completed my B.Tech. 5th months onward I st arted Google like a SEO. Started getting information. While going to drive I use to give my number to everyone, whom I met while attending the drive. They become My walkin friends. ************************************************************** You must and should be aware with BJS what it is? how it came? Let me tell you while searching job we have decided to make a group. we are few friends Ashu, Rohit, Amod we decided to create a new group where we will help the job seeker. what we have faced we will let them know we can assist them how to get walkins every day and we founded it.started with 270 member now you can see the strength. *********************************************************** I was not having money to drink tea. I was not having money to go walkin One day I started for walkin 5.00AM and reached the venu by 8.00AM only by walk. Place was shivaji nagar Professional access company But was not allowed. It happens. Total Attended Companies : 43 Small and Mid and Big included All failure in first round or in GD( this was also first round in some of the company) I never got chance to attended any technical round. Total Tech support companies: 13 all failure because of MTI mother tongue influence. 14 support company was JDA software where I got selected, Job profile was tech support. I didn’t got chance for core field to work. But that time money was everything for me I got first salary 11,300K.(5K loan rest for my expenses) ***************** Very Important Point What I learned: While attending drive I was very good in technical but weak in apti. even I have not concentrated in apti. Which I should. I realized but it was too late for me Suggestion: Please don’t do this mistake as a fresher level you should be good in apti. as well as in technical and most in communication. When I joined support job My work was handling the call "Thank you for calling xyz company! my name is Prashant how may I assist you or help you"! While joining I come to know they have night shift as well, Manager was very good I aske... (more) Upvote 181



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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Ramadas Mannattil, Loves and practices Non-Dualism (Advaita) Updated Oct 31, 2015

1985 – Trainee Programmer in private company – Rs.500 pm. 1987 – Asst Programmer (UDC scale) in Govt – Rs.1300 pm. 1991 – Jr Systems Officer – Govt of India undertaking – Rs.2200 pm. 1992 – Consultant System Analyst GOI Undertaking – Rs.3500 pm. 1995 – Systems Officer – GOI undertaking – Rs.6000 pm. 1996 – Programmer in a big Prince’s company in Saudi Arabia – Rs. 20000 pm (+ free housing, transport) + Moonlighting Home tuitions in Saudi Arabia – Rs.20000 pm. (converted from SAR) 1999 – Consultant in Private IT company in India – Rs. 10000 pm. 2000 – Sr IT Consultant to a big bank in Singapore – Rs. 1.5 lakhs pm. (converted from SGD) 2002 – Sr IT Consultant to a big bank in Switzerland – Rs. 8.5 lakhs pm (converted from CHF) 2004 – Sr IT Consultant to a big bank in Australia – Rs. 3 lakhs pm (converted from AUD). 2010 – Sr Project Manager for a big IT company in India – Rs.1.3 lakhs pm. 2015 – Ownership role in an IT start up – Rs. Zero per month Just Graduate in Science - Total educational expenses - Rs.3000 (lkg to BSc.) 11.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 50


Sougata Pal, Have received Salaries in INR/Euro/Rand/SGD/Roubles Written Jan 13

Must say while writing this answer, am really ashamed at looking my current salary even after 10 years work experience but am still writing it down here. 1. Occupation - Technically currently i am JOBLESS. I just left India and moved to Russia due to my marriage with my Russian GF. But i am doing some FREELANCING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT activities. 2. First salary, year - First Salary was 1.8 LPA as a Graduate Engineer Trainee in Reliance Infocomm (currently know as Reliance Communications) in 2004. Joined August 2004 and worked till November, 2006. 3. Present salary, year - As mentioned above Technically am JOBLESS due to me moving to Moscow post my marriage. In that sense my last salary till Sept, 2016 was 9.75 LPA only. I was working as an Assistant Manager in a small Intellectual Property (IP) Consulting company in Delhi. Doing some FREELANCING work now and earning very little around 20,000 Roubles Per Month. 4. Educational qualifications - Master of Science in Mobile Communications Engineering from Telecom ParisTech, France. 5. Job Locations: India, France, Spain, South Africa, Singapore, Russia Jobs in chronological order: 1. Graduate Engineering Trainee | Salary: 1.8 L PA INR | 2004–2005 | Kolkata, India | Industry - Telecommunication Service Provider 2. Telecommunication Engineer | Salary: 2.75 LPA INR (Increase in salary after completion of my Probation Period after 1 year) | 2005–2006 | Kolkata, India | Industry - Telecommunication Service Provider 3. Resigned from my job in 2006 and left India for France to pursue my MS in Sept, 2007 4. MS Thesis Intern | Salary: 1100 Euros PM | June, 2008–Dec, 2008 | Paris, France | Industry - Telecommunication Service Provider 5. Post MS, returned back to India in 2009 but i was keen to move back to Europe. Got the opportunity in Barcelona to work in a University as a Researcher


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6. Research Associate | Salary: 1000 Euros PM | Dec, 2009–Feb, 2013 | Barcelona, Spain | University Researcher 7. Left Barcelona and moved to South Africa in Feb, 2013 8. Research Associate | Salary: 6500 Rands PM | Feb, 2013–Dec, 2013 | Pretoria, South Africa | University Researcher 9. Moved back to India again in Dec, 2013. Got a job in Singapore in May, 2014 and decided to move there. 10. Deputy HOD | Salary: 4200 SGD PM | May May,, 2014–July, 2014 | Singapore | Industry - Education Management 11. Left the job after 3 months and returned back to India in August, 2014 again with a new job in Intellectual Property Rights in Noida. 12. Senior Research Associate | Salary: 8 LPA INR | Aug, 2014–Dec, 2014 | Noida, India | Industry - Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) 13. Firm got shut down within 6 months of my joining. One of the partner opened another firm and asked me to join with him which i did. 14.. Assistant Manager | Salary: 9.75 LPA INR | Jan, 2015–Aug, 2016 | New Delhi, 14 India | Industry - Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Moscow,, Russia. Got married with my 15. Left India in Sept, 2016 for Moscow Russian GF. 16. Freelancer (Business Development) | Salary: 20,000 Roubles per month | Oct, 2016–Till now | Moscow, Russia | Industry - Education 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Updated Nov 2

I began my career in a call center with Microland, right after BTech. Got Rs. 10k for working the graveyard shift from 1 2AM to 7:30AM. After 2 months, I absconded from the job because my throat was paining and my team lead was not keeping me off calls, I joined a software firm for Rs. 5k. I then left the job when I got an offer from Wipro - Rs.2.75Lakhs/ Rs.2.75Lakhs/annum annum I and my folks did not own a house; we lived in a rented place back then. When I got a promotion with a pay hike for Rs. 3.2L/annum, I with all high hopes approached a bank for a home loan. They turned me down. My dad was 60 then. I left my job, put all my small savings and dad’s PF money in getting a Masters in the US, and took the biggest risk with my parent’s money. I got a job here, graduated, broke even on my investments, brought a house and now I’m coming back after 2 yrs. Salary in the US was about $90k give or take. Loan is still pending but I don’t want to be here anymore. I’ll be starting an investment bank here in India at a good position at Rs. 25L/annum. Enough for me and my folks, I guess. Note: not a programmer. :) 16.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 203


Kasee Sreenivas, Sreenivas, Techno Management Professional , Senior Contracts Engineer, HCC Ltd Updated Aug 26

Salary is just another number to me. Since one of my favorite writers asked me to answer, I’m answering this. Ok, here it is. My initial pay when I had just completed my post graduation from NICMAR was around Rs 5 Lakh per annum. https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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365 days passed, they gave me a promotion with a pay hike. So, after 1 year of joining, my pay was around Rs 6 Lakh per annum. 12 more months , they gave me another hike. Now it is around Rs 7 Lakhs per annum with food, accommodation, travel, medical, insurance etc borne by the company company.. Thanks for A2A Anusha Sridharan 7k Views · View Upvotes · Answer requested by Anusha S ridhar ridharan an Upvote 22



First Job Started working in Aug 2006 as a Claim Processor (BPO) First Month Salary Rs.6697/Rs.6697/Last drawn salary while leaving company in Aug 2009 was Rs.14500/Second Job Worked as a Business Analyst (IT) First Month Salary Rs. 21000/Last drawn salary while leaving company in Aug 2015 was Rs.65000/Third Job Working as a Product Owner (IT) First Month Salary Rs.92000/Rs.92000/Education - Page on b.com ' Education Expenditure Till SSC - Free (Government School, Kannada Medium) 1998 HSC – Rs.1600 (Government College) 2000 Graduation – Rs.3000 (Only University Exam fees, college fee was waived off due to lack of students) 2003 8.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13


Shankar Pandala, Pandala, Expert naurkri profile and CV maker Written Sep 11

~1300% Occupation- Rotoscope artist, Financial Analyst, Analytics Associate First Salary- Roto Artist, Primefocus, Mumbai, 2010 — Rs 5000/- per month Resigned and joined MBA in finance 2011–13 and joined a mortgage company 2013– 2015 Changed my career to data analytics Present salary: Analytics Associate, 8.45 Lakh per annum Education: BE/ MBA 2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Nishar Sunkesala, Sunkesala, Master's from Sri Venkateswara University (2006) Written Dec 19

First Job Occupation - Customer Support Officer Salary - 0.96 Lakhs PA Year - 2006 Second Job


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Occupation - Technical Support Engineer Salary - 1.8 Lakhs PA Year - 2006 Third Job Occupation - System Administrator Salary - 2.4 Lakhs PA Year - 2007 Fourth Job Occupation - Senior System Administrator Salary - 11.7 Lakhs PA (CTC) and 1 Lakh (Allowances) --> Total = 12.7 Lakhs PA Year - 2016 Education Qualification: MCA My salary is not the best in the market for the technology which I am working now. Many people with more experience are earning less than what am earning. Be patient and have positive attitude. Don't forget to follow your dreams, you will become APJ Abdul Kalam one day! 29.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 171


Tanmay Singh, Singh, PM@Noora Health, Public Health Professional, Dentist, Fanatic gamer, Written Jul 22, 2016

Year: 2012 My first salary: Rs 5000, in hand salary was around 4000 Qualification: BDS, fresher Organization: a not for profit Worked for around two years salary hiked to 15,000 and in hand was around 14000. Switched career to public health Pursued MPH and completed it in 2016 I was sitting in my home after that and applied to 500 positions in two month was totally frustrated not a single call for an interview, thought about was my switch in career was worth it or not suddenly got selected for interview in an org in Bangalore. Cleared it Year:2016 Qualification: BDS, MPH, Exp of 2.6 years Salary: 85ooo INR (have yet to get in hand) Organization: a not for profit Lesson learnt even if you get many opportunities or just one it doesn’t matters, what matters is what you do with that opportunity and how much you are willing to win it….. :) 3.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 12



1. Software engineer. (Development, QA, Systems, Testing, Tools engineer etc.)


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2. Rs 20,000/month as intern (before graduation) and December 2008 Rs. 6.25 lakhs per annum (full time, after graduation), July 2009 3. $300,000/annum ~= Rs. 2 crore per annum, Dec. 2016. 4. BE- Computer Science and Engineering. That’s 32X in 7 years, starting at not so low. Caveats: The figures are Gross income before tax. Also, (2) was in Bangalore and taxes were ~33% for my slab and living expenses ~Rs. 1 ,00,000/annum while (3) in USA where taxes are 44% for my slab and living exp enses are ~$50,000 per annum. 20.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 27

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First : (Year 2013) Qualification : 11th - 12th summer vacation Joined freelancer - Income : 1 ,55,000 Stopped freelancin till April 2014 Second Phase : (Year 2014, April) Started working with a company as freelancer - Income: 2,40,000 In meantime i joined a private university, B.tech CSE Second Phase : (Year 2015, 2nd Sem B.tech CSE) Started working with a company as freelancer - Income: 1,20,000 Till June, 2015 In July 2015, Company offered me salary - My conditions that i won't be disturbed when i have exams. (Except emergency) Also, i will be going college regularly.College is from 9AM to 4PM, +2Hours for traffic and others, +Sleep, +Friend & Family :D Working hours: Undefined. Education qualification : B.Tech - CSE - 3rd Semester (Started) Occupation : Software Developer and So called CTO of a Startup Income : 7.2 Lakhs Per Annum + Share in Product Sale Income increased to : 20 Lakhs PA in July 2016 Qualification : started 5th semester Personally, I still try to give 3-4 Hours a day to books and personal stuff, Money i use for experimenting with electronics. 10.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 28


Anonymous Written May 27, 2016

It is approx 6 times. (5.95) :) :) package (per annum) : 5,00,000/84,000 = 5.95 I am a software engineer. I have done MCA (Masters in computer applications). I am giving the detail of in hand and committed both. Deductions like security amount and variable scheme were made. FIRST JOB : software engineer COMMITTED: 7000 INR In-Hand: 6,200 INR (800 for security deposits) Increment after 6th month 1,500 INR


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Worked for total 10 months then left and just after one day the company went down. :D :D :D SECOND JOB: software engineer COMMITTED: 12,000 INR In-Hand: 12,000 INR (No deductions, very loyal person) Worked for total 10 month after that t hey left me. :D : D :D FIRED. In some days this company also went down. for more about my firing please go through the link Anonymous' answer to How does it feel to get fired from your job suddenly? Third job in MNC THIRD JOB: software engineer COMMITTED: 41,666 INR (Package based 5 lakh) In-Hand: 30,063 INR (deductions relating pf, gratuity etc) hopefully working with this one from last 2 years and 2 months. 4.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19


Mayank Sharma, Technical Writer at Peerbits Solution (2016-present) Written Tue

1. Occupation: A writer, poet, novelist, blogger 2. First salary, year: My first job was in 2007 (after clearing 12th) as a counter salesman at a gift shop. Used to earn INR 1500 a month + part time theatre making INR 200 a day on an average. 3. Present salary, year: Two published novels (earning through just one, second on hold), freelance writer, lyricist and script writer, and translator (Eng to Hindi viceversa)… Earning close to INR 1.25 a month. 4. Educational qualifications: A commerce Graduate. Just want to share, stick to your passion. No matter what you do or where you are, believe in self that someday you’ll make things work according to your wish. One of my Quote says, “Keep Patience even time needs time”. 959 Views · View Upvotes Upvote 14



Age: 30 Job experiences are in different countries, salaries converted to USD to make it easier to compare. 2100% increase 1st job in 2005: Warehouse operative . Monthly Salary: $150. Current job: Salesforce admin. Monthly Salary: $3200 Education: currently in the final year, undergraduate design+business. 2.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Silvia Branco, studied at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova De Lisboa Written Mar 30, 2016

1. Different occupations, from fast-food employee, call center worker, receptionist, army sargeant, administrative assistant, assistant researcher to housekeeper/hotel assistant. 2. First jobs - call centers, fast food, etc (around 1998, 99, etc): 300 € or so. Receptionist (2001-2004) around 400 € ; army sargeant: from 300 € (2004) https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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up to 1200 € (2010). 3. After that 2011 until now, it was very on ups and downs regarding salaries. (As an assistant researcher i had a schollarship which basically allowed me to pay the basics, housing, food, etc. As a housekeeper i worked in Norway so it was around 1000 € after taxes per month. Presently i am again close to the end of a contract which means zero income (no unemployment benefits). 4. Educational qualifications: Bachelor in Geography and Regional Planning. 4.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Written Jul 23, 2016

Graduation Year 2014, from one of the top Engineering collage of Telangana,to be specific in Hyderabad May 2014: Placed in one of the top MNC as a Asst. Software Engineer through campus placement , salary Rs 25000, Didn't Join May-Dec 2014: Preparing for Govt. Jobs Dec 2014: Attended an interview for Apprentice Trainee in one of the PSU Feb 2015: Joined as Appreciate trainee , Salary/stipend Rs 5000/1 Apr 2015 : Got selected as PO/Management Trainee in one of the Public Sector Bank May 2015: Salary/Stipend hiked by 40% I.e Rs 7000 for Apprentice Trainee July 2015: Attended interview/Documents verification for Indian Railways and one of the Navratna PSU 17 August 2015: Joined Public Sector Bank , Salary Rs 41000 Gross (Rs 34500 In hand ) 02 November 2015 : Resigned from Public Sector Bank as I got some better opportunity. 14 December 2015 : Date of joining for both Jr. Engineer in Indian Railways and a Executive Trainee in Navratna PSU JE 4200 Grade pay, Gross salary would have been 40k and in hand 30k I chose to join Navratna PSU with a CTC of 7.2Lacs/annum during training then Approx 9.4 LPA after one year of training and awaiting P SU Pay commission pay revision in 2017. Feb 2015: 60000PA Dec 2015: 7.2LPA Hike : 1100% I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the people who have been with me thought out my difficult phase thanks for all the help and encouragement. 5.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 18

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Abhinivesh Arora, Commodity Trader at Stock Markets (2013-present) Written Jan 13

My Salary became Rs.40,000/month to Zero (Now) My passive Earning became Rs.4000/month to Rs.4,00,000/month (Average)

I graduated in 2013 and started the career as a software engineer in Bengluru and was getting salary 40,000 per month plus I was just beginner in stock market making 2k4k as passive income by technically analyzing stocks myself,It was a learning phase https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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towards my goal . I started actively trading stock futures and options somewhere in 2014. My starting salary package was Rs 4,80,000. By the beginning of 2014, I had already made Rs 6,00,000 by trading futures and options in stock market. I was on 7th heaven. Imagine a guy in his starting of his career doubling his salary in just one year by trading in stock markets. It was encouraging and fuel my passion towards stock market. I do sometime make mistake and loss money but I am very disciplined when it comes to stock market .I learned from my mistakes there was a day when I feel broke after booking loss but then I started trading again after 1 month and not only recovered my loss in about 4 months but earned a lot more money af ter that. I have developed my own strategy . I 2016 I started commodities trading extensively and it still continue giving me positive result on average. My family think I am still doing my day job in IT. I left Bengluru in Oct 2016 and came to Mumbai bought a Posh apartment for myself living there now with my pet dog Buddy. I have no other source of money than stock market though I have earned enough to start something in other sectors of business. I never risk that fund. I do earn 5 times more than most of my friends in IT companies in Bangalore or abroad. The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary. If you don’t mind being wrong on the way to being right you’re gonna learn alot! 4.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 23

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Shalve Mohile, Electrical Engineer by Profession, Curious Kid at heart Updated Oct 21, 2015

Here are my details 1st job year -1 2 013-2014: 1.8 LPA ctc ,12254 In hand 1st Job year-2 2014-2015: 3 LPA ctc, 22843 In hand 2nd Job year-3,2015- Present 4.75 LPA ctc, 33713 In hand Qualification : B.E (Electrical)

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1. HR/Rewards Analyst 2. 32.000,- DKK pr. month (~4.700 USD) - January 2014 3. 47.300,- DKK pr. month (~6.900 USD) - October 2016 4. Bachelor in general business administration, M.sc . in strategy, organisation and leadership So just about a 50% increase. Edit: Wrong starting year 6.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Written Nov 12, 2015

Hii Chi. This Q. little bit goes into personal. I was project engineer with Reliance industries before joining MTech in Indians one of the premier institutes.' After my BTech my career path went in this way: Mgmt Trainee Forbes Marshall.....(2013) CTC: 4.6 lakhs Project Engineer: Reliance Petrochemicals (2014.) CTC : 6.00 lakhs... So in two years I got 50,000 salary. But you have to be the student of one of premier colleges of India. Master of Technology (Powder Metallurgy)..... You can predict now.

Yippeeee..............

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Anonymous Written Nov 8

Education - Diploma in computer engineer(10+3) current role Profile - Directory of Technology / Principal Cloud Architect First Company -Top Indian MNC (5 years) 2010–11 :9K per month - Non technical executive role 2011–12 :11K per month - Non technical executive role - however learnt a lot of technologies , like really lot for a 1–2 year exp 2012–13 : 23K+5K per month - Made internal movement(all because of learning last year)Fantastic technical role in one of the best division of company 2013–14 : 7LPA Salary + 5-kL for international travels + 3L (Authored a book) 1st Job change - Top Product company of the world, dream company Role - Consultant /Architect 2014- 15 : 16LPA 2nd Job Change - Startup Role - Directory of Technology / Principal Architect 2016–17 : 30LPA Salary + 20+ Bonus etc. Will update how i made through if this get upvotes. P.S , I will be 24 next month :) 5.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 69


Anonymous Updated Jan 19

2011 - Got placed in TCS as a fresher - 3.16 L https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Trained in Linux, Networking and got a ample knowledge on Linux and Networking topics. After 3 months training, I wanted to be in Networking or Linux projects, but I was forced work in Monitoring. 2012 - Learned Monitoring tools and learned Java on my own in free time and did lots of Automation using unix scripts. But got C Band and my seniors got higher ratings only because of they were seniors. 2012 - Salary incremented to 3.84L 2013 - No work in my project, asked release but they refused to release me and forced to work in crap monitoring project. I was enjoying the free time in office and got addicted to facebook and games. 2013 - Same rating and Salary incremented to 4.2L per annum 2014 - No Updates - I was still in same position - Forgot Java, Linux, Networking. Only had some knowledge in useless Monitoring tools. I was more addicted to facebook, movies etc.. 2014 - Same rating and Salary got incremented to 5L per annum. 2015 - But I was still spending my time in Monitoring and begging for the release. Started looking for the opportunities outside and companies were not accepting me because of my po or knowledge in Java or Unix or Networking since I didn’t have any hands-on experience. 2015 - Same Rating and Salary got incremented to 5.5 L per annum. Mid-2015 - Got introduced to Quora by one of my friend. Addicted to it and I was reading the topics about Emerging technologies to learn and then many suggested the terms ‘Big-Data’, ‘Hadoop’, ‘Data Analytics’. Refreshed my knowledge in Java, Started learning Hadoop using Youtube Videos, blogs and using Hadoop defenitive guide book. And started attending small companies for BigData interviews. Got rejected many times, Everytime I rejected, I used to record the conversation and prepare well for the next interviews. At last, in December, Cognizant Hired me with 80% Salary Hike. 2016 to today - My Salary is 10L per Annum. Enjoying my work.. Received many appreciation from clients as well as from my manager. 2017 - Waiting for the Hike and hoping to get the good rating. :) Edit: Many are asked about how I learned Hadoop and prepared for Interviews.. First, Understand the Google File System and Mapreduce Concepts. Go through the below two Research papers published by Google. The Google File System Google Research Publication: MapReduce And brush up your Java Skills or learn it if you dont know Java. If you learn Java, you can learn any programming languages in the world. :) Core Java is enough. Buy Java - The Complete Reference 9th Edition (English, Paperback, Herbert Schild Book Java Programming Tutorial Learn SQL from W3Schools site. Its very Simple.. For Hadoop, Hive and Pig Hadoop Tutorial Buy Hadoop: The Definitive Guide Book Then Join Edureka - If still not confident about your Hadoop Knowledge. Gather your friends and pay for the course. Share the Course fee. I think Hadoop course in edureka https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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around 20k. 3 people can share it and learn. Then check with any of your friends who working in BigData projects. Ask them about their project experiance, Real time scenarios. Update the Same in your resume. Make sure that you should be confidence about your Hadoop knowledge. Atten Interviews, Don’t get upset if you get rejected. you can collect questions from those and find the answers or get help from your friends and get the answers. Meanwhile practice your self. Download datasets from various sites and practice. All the best :) 40.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 754


Jay Patel, I think about things Updated Dec 24

I am lucky if you see my transition 1. Job:- Door to Door Insurance Sales 2. First Salary - Rs 1500/- (for 2 months since I was terrible in it) 1. Job :- Content Writing for Ecommerce product 2. First Salary - Rs 11,000 /- (for 1 month) 1. Job:- Software Developer 2. First Salary- Rs 20,000/- pm Qualification- B.E in Electronics All this happened in past 2 years. More to grow. ;) *Edit* 1. Job : Part time liquor store. 2. First Salary : $285 for a week.! ( That's greater than a software developer in India) Will keep updating! 10.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 26

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Occupation: A ceramic engineer First salary, 2012 : 3.2 lpa per annum Present salary, 2015 : 7 lpa per annum educational qualifications : B.Tech, Ceramic Engineering. Yes, I am grossly underpaid. But I like my work though. 26.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 31



Occupation: Sales Professional First salary ,Year 2006 : Rs 3000/- + Monthly Incentives ( If target was not achieved in that particular month L.O.P for Rs.500/-,though it never happened in my case) Second Salary ,Year 2010 : Rs.18500/- monthly + Quaterly Incentive 10 k on target achievement Third Salary, Year 2013 : Rs. 22000/- monthly Fourth Salary Year 2014 : Rs.50000/- monthly Fifth Salary, Year 2016 : Rs.72000/- monthly + Incentives minimum 20 k a month https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Educational Qualification : MSc. Biotechnology I’ll add my age as well : 34 yrs.I believe its not what should i be getting at this Age,though i am happy and trying to achieve my goal of Salary of 1 lac a month “Yeah ! I gonna do it ” 1.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Sudhir Safi, Accountant by profession thinking to become a part time writer ;-) Written Mar 21, 2016

1st job part time during my graduation B.com 2011-12 as Broadband maintenance team on site Rs 5000. 2nd job after my graduation full time from Dec-2013 to Nov-2015 as Senior accounts assistant in MNC 10k till April-2014 then 13k PM 3rd job from Nov-15 as Senior Accountant salary 34k PM.

Qualifications: B.com(accountancy). Happy with where i am today but by heart i don't love my self living a monotonus life as an accountant. InshaAllah after all my financial problems solved i will do something more creative. 2.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation : Frontend Lead Engineer Qualification : B.Tech., Computer Science and Engineering (Tier 3 college) First Salary : 3.6 LPA - 2014 First Job : Designation : Web developer Company : StartUp (Gurgaon) Year : June 2014 Salary : 3.6 LPA Second Job Designation : Web developer Company : Product based firm (Gurgaon) Year : October 2014 Salary : 5 LPA No hike 2015 - Company issues January 2016 : Special Hike - 80% ( From 5 LPA to 9 LPA ) August 2016 : Hike 100% (From 9 LPA to 18 LPA) Designation : FrontEnd Lead Engineer Present Salary : 18 LPA - 2016 Got lot of offers from 19 - 24 LPA but I won’t run behind money. As I said in 2015 there is no hike for me I almost waited 16 months for hike. Money will come automatically. Just work with #Passion #Innovation #Out of box 10.5k Views · View Upvotes


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Rituraj Mishra, Capturing your emotions Written Jul 29

Isn't life to surprising? I got Rs.200 as my first salar y.Not in 19's era,But in 2015. I am a freelancer photographer and always had a passion to click .Click whatever comes smiling in front of me.I just can't resist myself from talking pictures.I really love it. I remember i got my first paid job for Rs.200 per day.No no....it wasn't a 30days work rather it was just a day or two. I never ignored any project s.Don't know why! But something kept me going and i always took the projects even if it was a loss to me. Then came a friend who knew a friend who knew a friend....... I got myself connected with agency who was responsible for FAASOS(Food delivery chain) food photography and i happily did the assignemnts. My salary at this point of time was around Rs.800–Rs.1500 per shoot.Was better than previous one but considering the travel factor in a city like Bangalore,i only saved Rs.300 to Rs.500 a day.Worked on assignments for around 3 months and had saved Rs.7000 by the end. Got a gift for mom and dad! (Those feelings were priceless) Now exactly a year after i began my journey, i am earning 60k to 100k a month.My hard work didn't go wasted. Here are some of my work:


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Rest photos if you wish you can see on my Instagram page: Rituraj_insta All happened due to God's grace. I just wish to tell you one thing..... "A job how small it may be,if it's your passion,gives you enough joy that will make you last another week."

P.S. I am a law student.Currently in Third year.Bangalore! 2.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 25

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Sai Siva Kumar , studied at Anna University Written Dec 28

1. Occupation : System Administrator 2. First salary, year : 9 6,000/anum, Joined on 13 Apr 2013. Monthly t ake home salary was 8000/Started my career as a Junior System Administrator in Hyderabad at a Middle level company and now I am in the same company with a package of 6L/anum. 3. Present salary, year : 6,00,000 /anum, Monthly take home salary : 43749/4. Educational qualifications BE When i started my career with my current company, most of my friends are joined in top MNCs with a starting pay of 5 digits around 18–25k. Now they all are getting around 4.5L/anum. Now i hold US visa, saudi Visa and an excellent package. Thanks 8.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 55




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2010 - Maintenance Engineer, Hi-Tech Arai Limited. Salary - Rs 7000/- per month. Qualification - B.E(Automobile Engineering) Quit the job in two months. (I dint enjoy the job) 2012 - May - ASE (CTS) Salary - Rs 20000/- per month. Qualification - M.E (Manufacturing Systems and Management). Quit the job in one month. (I dint enjoy the job) 2012 - July to 2013-Decemeber - Assistant Professor at SASTRA University Last drawn salary - 42000/- per month. Qualification - M.E (Manufacturing Systems and Management). Enjoyed the job.. I found that this is the most suitable job for me. But, quit the job in Dec 2013, to pursue PhD. 2014 Jan to till date - PhD scholar in IIT. Salary - Rs25000/- per month. Even though the salary is lesser than the previous job, am enjoying the life here. Happiness and Success cant be measured with salar y. 9.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 30

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Going anonymous as I have quite a bit of following here on quora: Education: B.E from top 10 college in India (State Rank #12) First Job: software services company Year: 2006–2010 Designation: Software Engineer First month salary: INR 11,312 (2.1 Lakhs Per Annum) MBA from a Top 10 college in India. Second Job: Manufacturing (Industry) Year: 2012–14 Designation: Manager Salary: 13.8 LPA (90k per month) Third Job: Consulting Year:2014-Present Designation: Business Consultant Salary: 28 LPA + around 12 Lakhs per year (from onsite projects) (1.5 - 3 Lakhs per month) Am I happy? Yes. I would lie if I say there is no peer pressure to earn more and more, having passed out from Top 10 colleges in both UG and PG. My humble background lets me appreciate the progress I have made so far. To give you all a perspective both my grandpas are farmers, both my dad and mom are school teachers and I studied in a tier 3 town. Not writing this to boast but when I started the career I used to travel to office using government bus, now I drive an Audi A4. Edit: Adding some pointers that helped me so far 1. Hunger to learn more


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2. Enjoy the current job however frustrating it may be (Never get bogged down as it would only reduce energy to hunt a new job - A good job hunting, preparation require a peace of mind 3. In case the current job is becoming mundane, repetitive, less challenging. Time to move on 4. Biggest of all - Networking- I repeat- Networking. Most of the job posting s get filled, before even reaching the job portals, through internal referrals. Keeping a good rapport and connecting with your school, college mates, seniors makes a lot of difference. Thanks for reading. All the best. 4.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 33



Frontend Engineer, B.E. (CSE, 2012 graduate) First Salary - 250 INR - Freelancing (2009, during college days) First Corporate Salary - 18000 INR (2012) Left the company in between the training period, did freelancing for a year, made over 10L in the fi rst year. (2013 - 2014) Started a company with a friend of mine, shut it down after a year. (2014 - 2015) - went in loss Joined a startup in 2015, salary - 67K / month (after deductions) Joined another startup in 2016 (current job), salary - 1L / month (before deductions) % increase from first corporate salary till today 555.55% (this might go down if taxes are deducted from the current salary, which I haven’t accounted for) 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19

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Anonymous Updated Oct 4

Occupation: Started off as a software engineer. Got into the entrepreneurship bandwagon. Currently owning two companies. Part of service industry as well as manufacturing health care products. Education : Post graduate in computers. Starting salary: Rs.3000/month (2001). Then to 4.25 CTC (2003). Doubled to a CTC of 9.5 (2009). Started off business ventures. Current salary : Now having multiple income from different business ventures. Not sure about the real worth of companies. Now the story line …

I guess I've taken a slightly different path than most of the people around here. I did a post graduation in computers. I flunked it and was in the league of least 10% of sixty students from a famous university. 2001 Dec - 2002 June An intern with no salary working on simple MS Visual Basic applications. A time of regret for not performing well during post graduation. 2002 July - 2002 Nov Software Developer earning Rs.3000/- per month which too they never paid on time. Left this job when it was too poisoning.


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1 month I worked for a tele-marketing company for a daily wages of Rs.500/thru an event management firm. I bought a jeans for Rs.390/- and bought my self a chicken Biriyani after the first day of work. It was very satisfying. The food tasted so good. My boss was very happy about my work. I was happy too because it paid me money for having proper food. My boss hugged me once and said she had never met someone like me. She was very uncomfortable as I was over qualified for the job. I had not told them about my educational background as I wanted to earn. Later, after joining I had to tell them. But it helped me to realise I was different. I was welcomed at their home. Her family helped me out when I started a venture later. 3 months worked as a project co-ordinator for computer science students for their semester projects for a famous IT training institute in Bangalore. Handling 8 small projects but earning for a b are minimum living. Had to fight with the owner of the company as he was not keen in giving me salary. Finally after helping the students finishing with their projects, I left the job. Two of them spoke to their parents and they gifted me Rs.5000/-. I promised myself I would never work for a small place. I had no clue on how to handle the situation as I was jobless. I was praying for a good job. After 9/11 & dot com burst world was still in a shock and Bangalore had very less chances for less experienced. I was very unlucky too…

I managed all rounds of interviews for a famous IT company thru an employee referral scheme. But because of linguistical favouritism, the recruiting manager gave opportunity to someone else. I came to know it thru the HR itself. I went to collect offer letter that day, where the HR itself was found upset over the issue as they had given a verbal confirmation including CTC. I just came out of that place and walked till the place of my stay (approx 10 km) because I had nothing else to do. I reached my place very tired and slept. Didn't eat for a day. Another time, my college mates managed an opportunity with a company where there was a requirement for 4 people. They couldn't reach me on time as mobiles were not so common those days. All the three of them got thru. I was loosing hope…. I was trying hard for interviews and finally God’s grace, managed it at Dell. 2003 Dell - CTC of 4.25. My parents cried when they heard the news. My grandma was overjoyed. I was relaxed. Slept well. 2005 - Saved around 5 lakhs and started a side business and worked on it in the evenings and weekends. 2006 - business started returning the effort. Earned around 12 lakhs per year from my venture and 6 lakhs from Dell. 2008 - left the venture due to partnership issues. 2009 - joined Sun micro systems. CTC 9.5 lakhs 2009 - started off another business venture while working at Sun. Invested 30 lakhs taking personal loans and managing from savings. I used to shiver in fear because the amount was so huge for me. Everyone around me wanted me to buy a home and I was like putting all that I've into a business. Worked day & night. My days used to start at 7am at the office. I was awarded multiple times for performance. Business flourished. Used to go home only for sleeping. Got married and had our first baby too. 2010 - Rejected offers to travel abroad and decided to stay back in India for growing the businesses venture. Refused to travel after getting a US visa :). Yes I did that. In 2001, I wanted to work abroad so badly. I used to go near departure of Bangalore airport (currently HAL airport) to see people travelling. 2010 - Left IT industry after a role change. I was unable to manage both job and the business venture.


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2011 - Bought 50% partnership in a firm which required investment. Investment amount was 20 lakhs. My other venture was still growing but I was taking a salary of only 50k per month. So a dip in monthly income but my capital left to grow at a good pace. It was tough to meet household expenses during starting of these years. People around me started feeling unhappy about me leaving the IT industry. I had a hard time convincing everyone. 2012 - 2015 Great three years. God is so great. God provides me with everything I need. I decided I would please my family too. Bought our first Merc. An upgrade from a very noble car. Bought a house for ourselves. An upgrade from a rented house. I'm happy to contribute to my society too. I found that to be more satisfying than earning money. Did help individuals for food, medical expenses and education. Helped in revival of a Christian institution. They are able to sustain themselves now. Yes, our financial help is getting multiplied for people unknown to me. It is known to very less people. I couldn’ write this without tears. Now I work hard to sustain the growth. It's really tough. I really wish if I had not spent too much raising the standard of my life style. I never feel bad for those days for working hard towards saving money. We used to avoid travel. No hotel visits. No vacations. It is all paid back. I have watched the movie “the pursuits of happiness” over 10 times. I can easily relate myself to it. I cry watching it every time. I'm almost 40 now. Because of the lifestyle I feel old. Became more of a spiritual person because everything happened in my life was beyond my imagination. I'm not tired. Currently working on 5 start up ideas. Hope atleast one will get to launch. Above all I'm sure God loves me as His child. 4.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 68


Ankit Gade, Software Developer Written Dec 22

1800% Hike from First Salar y. 1. Occupation: Software Developer & Blogger. 2. First Salary: 1.2 Lac/annum 3. Present Salary: 21.6 Lac/annum 4. Educational qualifications: B.E. Computer Science ( Nagpur University ) To be honest about educational qualifications, it is merely an piece of paper called degree. True knowledge can be gained from anywhere and anytime. I am earning about 30–35% of current income from products developed by me in my free time apart from my regular job, so if you are really working from perspective of learning; “earning” is not that much tough thing to achieve. Best Luck! 87.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 624


Siddell Bloodsaw, Presales Engineer (2016-present) Written Jan 4

1 . Presales Engineer 2. £ 15000/ year 2013–2014


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3. £ 65000/year 2016 4. 1st class degree in Artificial Intelligence with Cybernetics with a year in Industry 333% increase. :) the first job i did, i was a intern in digital marketing. my present job is the above for a software vendor in the uk. 361 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation : Vice President - Administration First Salary : Rs 1800 P.A. (1981) - Worked as a Clerk in a small firm. Current Salary : Rs 63,53,000 (inclusive of Bonuses) P.A. (2014) Educational Qualification : Instrument Mechanic (ITI) I also failed twice in my year 10 examinations. Well, I am writing this answer primarily to convey, you need to stop regretting about the mistakes in your past and keeping moving forward. Apart from hardwork, the desire to succeed is a great thrust. 6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 43

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Anonymous Updated Dec 8

Oct 2012 INR 8000 (Techonwire Technical Services) Oct 2013 INR 23000 (Infosys ) 3.25 lpa Jan 2016 INR 54000 (XYZ product based company Internship) Oct 2016 INR 87000 (XYZ product based company Full Time) 12 lpa (16lpaCTC) Dec 2016 INR 97000 (Approx monthly 10% increment ) 13.2 lpa My first company was Techonwire technical services which was a Windows,Linux tech support call centre service for international clients from US,Europe. It looks like it is non existent now but here are the traces of it i found on justdial. #Nostalgic Techonwire Technical Services Pvt Ltd

* International Call Centre in Ameerpet,

Hyderabad - Justdial) * +(91)-40-64638988 * Flat No 603, Adiya Trade Center, Ameerpet, Hyderabad 500016, Near Satyam Theatre Road (Map) My second company was Infosys where i was placed as a Systems Engineer during my final year of BTECH after which my date of joining was delayed by almost 13 months, Even after excellent performance in fast track batch of training, i was forced to be on bench for 4–5 months. My third company was XYZ, you can literally replace XYZ by any of the product based companies such as Oracle,Microsoft,Visa,Cisco,Juniper,Arista,Avaya,HP,NetApp,EMC2,Codenation,JP Morgan,SAP Lab. List is really endless. Almost all of these offer stipend of approx 25k–50k monthly during internship and offer salary 10–15LPA or 80k–100k monthly salary during Full time employment. Edit#1: So how did i move from service based company to product based company? Short answer: MTECH from a top tier institute! Which College: IIT’s, NIT’s, BITS’s, IIIT’s, DTU, NSIT, COEP, UOH! https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Edit#2: Got 10% increment Apology for not revealing the identity, hence providing generic answers. 65.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 169



Occupation: So called Entrepreneur First salary: INR 17,000 (Apr 2015 - Nov 2015) Second salary: INR 20,000 (Nov 2015 - June 2016) Third salary: INR 46,000 (Sep 2016 - Dec 2016) Current salary: INR 0 *I run couple of startups. Though I don’t draw any official salary, but the revenue is in $xxxxx Educational qualification: B.Tech in Information Technology (2015 Batch) 13.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 62

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1. Occupation: Web application developer 2. First salary, year: 2,500 INR, 2010 3. Present salary, year: 55,000 INR, 2016 4. Education Qualification: B.Tech (CSIT) Change in salary from first job to present : 2200% in 6 years First job: Medical Transcription company (2500 INR, 2010) Second job: Startup, Web Designing company (7500 INR, 2011) Third job: Startup, Web Development company (22,000 INR, 2012) Fourth job: Startup, Service Based company (55,000 INR, 2014-present) 10.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 30

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passed out b.com in 2010 joined shipping back-end in 2011 for 1.9 LPA joined another shipping back-end job in 2013 for 2.47 LPA 2016 = Jobless. moral of the story - never join a job just for sake of joining,especially in shipping sector specifically back-end process, life will be ruined. 4.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19

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Well I graduated in 2014, Engineering stream. I choose to stay in my hometown A tier2 city. 2014: Joined a SME, internship for 6 months Salary: INR 7,500 https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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2014: Internship over, confirmed as a full t ime employee. Salary : 10,000 2015: First Appraisal cycle, with one year experience Successfully Negotiated a 100% Hike & promoted as team lead. Salary: 20,000 2016: Now two years experienced, appraisal cycle was just two months away, started to attend interviews. Got Job offer (6 LPA) . Salary : 45,000 Just after graduating, in a span of 2 years, My salary went from 7500 to 45000. That’s 600% Not happened because i deserve it, happened because i negotiated it (#copied). P.S: I work in Software/IT industry. I don’t code. 2.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 21


Anonymous Updated Sep 11

From 3.0 lpa(20K pm in hand) in 2014 to 6.75lpa(46K pm in hand + 50K variable given at year end) in 2016. First job - campus placement in Cognizant. - 10000+ employees - Worked from August 2014 to August 2015. Second job: startup - 10 employees - worked from August 2015 to January 2016. Third and current job: new big data company with g reat turnover, work and life stability. 200+ employees - April 2016 - present. Education: Bachelor of Computer science from an average college. Work domain: UI 3.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 32

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Vageesha Jaajuru, former Mechanical Engineer ( QA/QC oil and Gas) at Applus+VELOSI (2011-2016) Written Oct 21, 2015

Mechanical Engineer... (July 2011 passed out without placement) Working in a same company since Oct 2011 Consultancy, testing and certification for the oil and gas industry

- Muscat , Oman as Mechanical Engineer in QA/QC sector (

I'll mention in INR )

2011 to 2012 - 40 k per month. ( No savings for year as i am lived and have been in little expensive city compare to my salary and Bank loan .. etc.. etc.. )

2012 to 2013 - 48 k per month ( Started to save monthly 20 k / month)

2013 to 2014 - 90 k per month ( Including salary raise + House allowance + etc.. etc..) ( Saving 40 k Month)

2014 to present - 1.20 L / per month ( 50 to 60 k per month) https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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I think, as a fresher starting in abroad made my life better to come out of all my financial struggles as i saved more ( No enjoyment , No tax for my money) and career wise it little risky decision i say. Now - Planning shift to India and live my life in home country.

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BE Mechanical Engineering from a very normal college with a fees of 10k INR per year. First Job: 15,000 INR(~$225) per month/Software engineer/2003 Current Job: 8,10,000 INR(~$12,000) per month/Analyst/2016 55x increase. I am not proud, I could have done better, I am still growing. Some details as requested in comments: My scores in my 12th grade were not great and neither was the financial background of my family, I had to pick what was available then at the cheapest price. When I completed my engineering I had offers from ISRO and a software company. I picked the s oftware company since I wanted the quickest way to provide more for my family than what interests me. I got 15,000 INR a month for 6 months for during training. I got a tier 1 raise in salary which brought my salary to 30,000 INR per month by early 2004- other tiers ranged from 20 to 30K. I quit and joined a US based company related to databases at the end of 2004. My salary increased to around 60,000 INR per month. I was sent to the US in a month for data warehousing and analytics role which made my salary in the US at around $80,000 (at that INR conversion rate it was around 3,00,000 INR per month). I got promoted pretty quick, but returned to India to work to manage their offshore office in 2010 (My salary was around 2,50,000 per month then in INR) and then quit again to join another big data related company as an Architect/Chief Analyst to work on their big data algorithm and develop applications related to it. I have since grown to have my own team which is a core team in India for the business that is close to a billion dollars. As I said, I am not proud, since I am still growing. I lack so many skills and that prevents me from being entrepreneurial. 12.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 43



1. Occupation: ‘Unpaid Engineer and a failed MBA’ 2. (Earlier-2014) Placed in a Well known MNC with a package of 2.89lpa. 3. (Present:2016)Digital Marketing Executive within 2 months profile changed to Senior E xecutive: SEM 2016 in a start-up with a package of 3.60lpa. 4. Again a change in profile from next year into core team with company heads. Education qualifications : (Earlier-2013 B. E(Computer Science) Got placed, then had to leave my job.(2014– 2016)Mba from local government college. Life is unpredictable!


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I left my programming job because of some family reasons. Though I regret that decision now as I could have been pursuing MBA from some good B-School. From a core programming job I have switched to a very different role. Ps: now I even don't have any perspective in life. Specially when I land up on the same payscale in two years. Thank you :) 3.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Vikash Shukla, Brand Manager Written Jan 4

Occupation: Brand Manager First Salary: Rs. 6k / month Present Salary: Rs. 150k / month Educational Qualification: B.A.,MBA - Marketing and HR Career Starting Age: 23 years Present Age : 33 years Note: I am still underpaid. You may be socked to see but I know what i am since beginning. I am still waiting for right time. I know what i am, Money is just my need. I know i am meant for something special yet to come. 2.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Year - 2006 1. Occupation - Computer Instructor for MSCIT students 2. Salary - 1500rs per month Timings : 8 to 2 3. Education : diploma computer completed Year - 2010 1. Occupation - Software Storage QA Engineer 2. Salary - 10,000 per month (on contract) 3. Education : B.Tech Year - 2011 1. Occupation - Software QA Engineer 2. Salary - 22,000 per month (full time) 3. Education : B.Tech Year - 2012 1. Occupation - Software QA Engineer 2. Salary - 27000 per month (full time) 3. Education : B.Tech Year - 2013 1. Occupation - Sr. Software QA Engineer 2. Salary - 32000 per month (full time) 3. Education : B.Tech Year - 2016 https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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1. Occupation - Independent QA consultant 2. Salary - 2,50,000 per month 3. Education - B.Tech One day everything make sense. 3.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 37

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One of the rare cases I think: Occupation: Software Engineer 1st Salary: 2,15,000 Rs per year. (Outsourcing company) Transition from Outsourcing/sweatshop engineer to SV engineer. No MS i n USA. Present Salary: 4,15,000 USD per year. (SV company) Education: BCA computer science, MCA computer science - both India. SV - Silicon Valley P.S. And they say H1B’s steal jobs. WTF? 10.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 47



B.Tech-2013 . Till 2013 (Zero salary and 4 lakhs loan for my B.Tech). PhD-2013(july)-2015(july)( 25,000 stipend per month(JRF) cleared loan b ought a laptop&bike with my own money. ) Three research papers. Present-( 33,600 stipend per month(SRF). To be frank don't know where to invest this money :P. Just statred exploring the world ). But the satisfection level is ultimate. I am a graduate from an IIT and Research scholar in IIT. P.S: Sorry for bring a nonymous :P. Happiness and Success cant be measured with salar y. 6.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 24

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2012: Placed in Cognizant. Put into project as a developer. Doesn't know any coding at all. Not even the basics if end else. Salary : 3.3 LPA 2013 April: Was warned by manager of firing. I too know I am not an eligible candidate to work as a Developer. 2013 June: Was put in Bench. Any time firing possible. 2013 July: Suicidal thoughts. No one knows it. Because of my friend and my love of my life. Didn't lose hope. One of my friend worked on a BPO. Asked him to refer. He referred me and that day had a severe cold. So got rejected in that interview. 2013 August: One new project came to Cognizant. First of a kind. Unidata developer. Worked my ass out in learning. Learnt things. 2014 August: Got promotion Salary: 5.5 LPA 2016 August: Because of My Manager, Came out. Joined a small company as Unidata Developer.


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Shobha Deepthi V, From being Obsolete to Relevant Written Dec 13, 2015 Originally Answered: How much has your salary increased from your first job?

Your question is incomplete. As it depends on the number of years of experience and how many job changes you have had. And its never a comparison between first job salary and current job. Its always how much is the average salary of a person with n no. of years of experience and the skill set is getting paid in the market, it should always be a comparison with respect to your peers and with respect to the market standards. To answer your question, in my case not much. I had no house, car or even a two wheeler but I was damn happy, very ambitious, passionate about future, very optimistic and hopeful. Thought that I would change the world :-P. Today my salary really makes no difference to any of the things I mentioned above. Lets just say my salary got me a house, car. But future now looks scary though! Sorry for giving you a discouraging answer or an answer that really does not answer your question. But that's the ground reality. 473 Views Upvote

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Anonymous Written Aug 9

1. Occupation Senior Manager | Product Management 2. First salary, year 2008, 3 lakhs per annum Until 2011 Dec- salary 3,38,000 per annum 3. Present salary, year 2016, 25 lakhs per annum (so many other b enefits, Indian Company-not startup) 4. Educational qualifications Simple B Tech from Computer Science [Not from IIT/NIT] and entire life I was an average student. Never went onsite/abroad [Not even to Nepal] All earnings in INR [not calculating my USD to INR] So what happened in past ~5 years? Answer is “realized how important money is in our life”. I am a certified Ethical Hacker with CEH, CISSP certifications. I am a Certified Linux Professional. I am a certified Cloud Solutions Architect [and few more in pipeline]. I have knowledge to clear CCNA,CCNP without any prep. Why anonymous reply? I dont want to reveal my id/name/cast/religion/race + dont want to reveal my real identity with salary [against official guidelines]. 4.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 31

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Omkar Nath Nandi, works at Extensive Ideas Best Digital Marketing Company @ https://extensiveideas.com Written Oct 13

This post is my life’s shortest story i could write. It’s a tribute to Almighty God and my will power which empowered me to solve my life’s complex and critical https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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situation and bring some sort of stability in daily life. Do read and comment, i would need suggestion to improve and friends to be happy.

It all started with the work of Data Entry operator, being good in typing I could get it while doing my graduation from IGNOU. Earning p er month: Rs 5000, it was in 2005. Completed BA and was by then Microsoft certified. Started working on my small computer network management and PC selling business earning: Rs 10,000 per month in 2007 I even received Presidential educational Grant from the Our beloved Late President Sir Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam awarded me with an e ducational grant. Now i think his decision was not all wrong and that’s why he is not just human but an angel.

In 2007 began working with another venture made it: Rs 15,000 per month. At last decided, I will do MBA and joined the same in 2010. I left work for one year for first two semesters of my MBA. From 3rd Semester Started working again and continued MBA with monthly Rs 5000/-. Received Job offer in 3rd semester by 2011 and package was 1.5 lac. But I left the job in 2 months as I had to sell specs which I never liked. Although my institute asked me to sit in more interviews, i never did that. They said I would get at least the double of the previous offer in next offer. But I don’t know why I never did that. Although then I could have got much-needed relief from a small learning and struggling life. The funniest thing about my life is, I never had the money even to survive but wanted to do business. Possibly because I could never access the better school and college and quality professional degrees to get a good job. From May 2012 started working full time on my venture. Started paying all my dues, starting from MBA loan to contributing 2 lac in our flat purchase to working up with my business and fulfilling many of my family duties and even got married all on my own earning. Sponsored Jadavpur Universities National Meet.


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Started the post marriage life with a lot of tours. Traveled across 3 Indian states starting from Tirupati, Varanasi to Sikkim and enjoyed many other small trips in the 1st year of my marriage. All this was possible due to few first lessons on digital marketing and search engine optimization. I can’t disclose what I earn and spend, but I am not unhappy. The biggest thing I could achieve from my venture is supporting my old parents who need a social support to live more years. My father now 74 years old is in an advanced stage of Dementia forgets almost everything. My mother almost immobile due to the advanced stage of arthritis. They both are helpless without me. There is one more thing I could achieve, and that was a shift from our home to the new flat. The house my father bought was in a place full of criminals. As we used to live in Odisha, he had no idea about the situation and mistakenly bought the home. It took me five years to get a buyer after 165 customers visited our home, who never bought the home due to severe local influence. One of my teachers bought it with strong local hold, and I could get out of that shit of a place. Stayed in rent for 2.5 years while my flat was booked and under construction. Promoter took three years to complete it, but by then we don’t not much to pay for the Flat. I took another House Building Loan that came purely on my business transactions record and IT files I maintained for years and direct contributions from me. Then due to immense pressure from my parent, family, and society, I decided to get married. My marriage was a one man arranged marriage. I registered in an online wedding portal choose my wife and got family clearance to approach her family. After finalizing on the date of the wedding, I had only seven months time... (more) Upvote 36

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Divyakant Dipak Mishra, studied at Jabalpur Engineering College Written Jul 26

After Passing BE Civil in 1979 Got the Government Job As A STA-Senior Technical Assistant in MP Lift Irrigation Corporation Ltd ( GOMP Undertakings) 1st Salary about INR 200=00 Per Month ( Rs Two Hundred Only) In Year 1979 . Present Salary is about INR 85,000=00 Per Month ( Rs Eighty Five Thousand Only) in The Water Resources Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh. 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1st company (2006) year 1 - INR 210,000 Year 2 - INR 420,000 (100%)


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2nd Company (2008) Year 1 - INR 720,000 year 2 - INR 900,000 3rd Company (2010) Year 1 - INR 1,000,000 Year 2 - INR 1,100,000 Year 3 - INR 1,300,000 Year 4 - INR 1,500,000 My Start up Year 1 - LOST INR 1,600,000 Year 2 - LOST INR 1,00,000 Year 2 - yes…you guessed it…i am broke and in debt 4th company (started with a relatively small company) Year 1 - 360,000 So in monetary terms, i have gained 71%. but i have gained immense lessons throughout my career. Though its not relevant but still want to put across…may be someone might gain from my experience: 1. Time changes…be it good or bad…time definitely changes.. 2. save during your most productive days…so that you do not have to depend on others. 3. learn, and learn a lot …knowledge is everything 4. 2 sets of p eople you will counter, one who do not care about you (by now they all becomes ex - ex BF/GF, ex boss, ex peer, etc) and others who will support you for everything (like wife, parents, siblings) - and if you are lucky you will find 3rd type of people who are just friends who at the end of a shit day will stand with you just to show he is with you even if he hated that cig smoke like anything before. 5. Entrepreneurship is a tough job, have many scarifies, but definitely not at the expense of your near and dear ones. Remember they are also sacrificing a lot which might not be visible to you. 6. plan event in your life before hand. atleast the basic requirements. 7. avoid distractions like extra marital affairs or friendship with benefits…might hurt someone with genuine intentions. (only reason for going anonymous) 8. Health is wealth - any compromise on this will take you to deep shit. 9. hard work pays. 10. read lots of books. Or choose good topi cs on quora. Both will have great impact on your characters. 11. Do not ever…ever…ever…compare yourself with others - you are unique and this itself is a reason for celebration…even a small celebration like ‘pani poori championship’ with your wife :) Life is a celebration…enjoy every moment of it. 13k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 170

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Asha Joshi, 18+ Experienced freelancer manager Written Nov 9 Originally Answered: How much has your salary increased from your first job?


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finally would you like to know about the how to increase you salary naa.. if do you wanna to increase your pay skill first you need have some important factors .. they are → update

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Around 600% increase in 4 Years. 1. Occupation - SDE (Software Development Engineer) 2. First salary, year - 23,000 INR/Month , 2012 3. Present salary, year - 160000 INR/Month,2016 4. Educational qualifications- B.Tech. Electronics From a substandard college in my hometown in India. 20.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 43


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Passed out Btech in Electrical Engineering from private engineering college in Kolkata in 2010. Employed as junior software engineer. 1st salary 3.2lacs p.a. Left the job in 2012. Passed out Mtech in Computer Science from IIT bombay after cracking GATE in 2012. Joining Salary 18.6 lacs p.a. Left the job in 2014 . Did MBA from Harvard Business School passed out in 2016. Current salary $320,000. 3.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 32

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I’m a Software Engineer by Occupation, Got campus placement in TCS while studying B.Tech in IT from Gujarat’s premier institute and St arted with 3.16 LPA in July, 2013. After a year I was ranked as high performer and got a generous hike as per TCS standard, my CTC was 3.65 LPA in July, 2014. In the annual appraisal in TCS I got the highest “A” Band and again received considerable hike, my CTC was 4.11 LPA in March, 2015. In July, 2015 I completed 2 years at TCS and promoted to Systems Engineer and received another salary hike at this point my CTC was 4.49 LPA in July, 2015. I got offer from EMC with almost 75% hike and joine d as Consultant with CTC 7.8 LPA in September, 2015. Further I received 15% hike with Consistently Exceeding Expectation rating at EMC and CTC 9.15 LPA in October, 2016. I would say a person should focus and excel in his/her work and money and opportunities will follow.


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I’m leaving up this lucrative job and going to USA for higher studies :) 19.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 226

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Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts. First Job: Profile: Teacher at a computer coaching center, 1984. Salary: Rs 6000/Year I heard about programming at that time and went to educate myself in computer programming. I started learning about computers at a Training Center in Kanpur, UP. After completing the training, I was hired by the same institute for teaching as well, which enhanced my skills and confidence. First Job as Programmer Worked as Programmer – (1986 to 1988) in a Tannery in Kanpur. Worked with a Steel Manufacturer as Sr. Manager IS (Oct-1988 to Mar-1995), Kanpur. Worked with a Pipe Manufacturer as Sr. Manager IS (Mar-1995 to Mar-1997), Kanpur. Joined a Sugar Manufacturer as Manager IT (April 1997 – Jan 2008), Meerut. Stayed with the same company, learnt SAP, till I got promoted to Additional General Manager IT and SAP. Joined another Sugar Manufacturer as Vice President IT and SAP (Jan 2008 – May 2012), Noida. Joined an Infrastructure Company as IT Head(Sr. Vice President) May 2010 – Dec 2012, Gurugram. Last Salary as an Employee- Rs. 42 Lac Per Year. On January 1st 2013, I started my own company and now have 15 employees on our Payroll and 10 as Third Party. 9.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 109



I've eventually doubled my salary every 2 yrs. First job, 2011 (software engineer, startup) - 10Lakhs Second job, 2013 (software engineer, MNC) - 20Lakhs Third job, 2015 (quant, investment bank) - >40Lakhs Now, the most important qn - does money buy you happiness? To an extent, you stop thinking about money and focus on other good things in life. Most of the money just automatically gets invested via SIPs, without being spent for years. But, it's hard to say if I'm happier than before, specially with the stress of an investment bank. Another important qn - have I stopped looking? I remember, during my first job, I never proactively looked for a switch (got headhunted). Compare that to me now, I find time to network all over to find more interesting things to do. Perhaps, I'll never stop looking, till I find something meaningful enough to keep me satisfied :) Disclosure - I graduated from one of the IITs 15.8k Views · View Upvotes


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I had studied electrical engineering and working as a Software Developer. I even don’t know what does software engineers do during my college days. I am one of the student who got selected for one of the core companies in nasik, which is around 1000+ kms from my place. Have joined the company and left within a week. Have started learning java and sql, after 3 months, i have started working on UI Frameworks (Html,CSS, Javascript). Got job in a startup, haven’t received any salary for 3 months after 3 months i started with Rs.7000/- and currently iam a frontend developer at one of the top most Service based companies. Now i earn around rs.80,000/- per month and i am 3.6yrs experienced.

All credit goes to my dad, he is my hero. I came from a below middle class family, they work hard everyday and hardly get money for bread and butter. But they had never stopped educating me. There are so many days where they didn’t had their food for atleast two times a day. My dad had sacrificed everything for me, my happiness was their happiness and with so much of their hard work i joined engineering and completed it. Whatever the life iam leading and enjoying currently is all because of their hard work. Even now they are working very hard, they haven’t even took atleast a single rupee from my earnings and they use to send me money every month. Thank you dad , love you soo much. :) 1.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Written Jan 13

Year 2007: Rs.2000 per month Job: packing job in cigarette company Year 2010: Rs.3000 per month Job: cashier in one of the amusement part Year 2011: Rs.15000per month Job: Graduate engineer trainee in one manufacturing MNC. Year 2016 : Rs.40000 per month Job: asst manager in a reputed organisation. Qualification: B E Mechanical engineering. 1.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 10

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Anonymous Written Jul 28

I am going anonymous for very obvious reasons. If you have been in a joint family, you would understand ;) I am a software developer. Precisely, a web developer. I started my career by May 2014. Occupation: Web Application Developer (Server Side Technologies) First Salary / Year: INR 16,064. / May, 2014 Present Salary / Year : INR 50,000 / August, 2016 Educational Qualification : B.E CSE P.S: I am not in the very same company where I started my career. And salary figures are Take Home. Cheers ;) 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Got 309% hike in 3 years!

1. Occupation: System admin 2. First salary, 180000 P.A (As a fresher in a leading IT Company) then they revised to 220000 after two years. 3. Present Salary, 900000 P.A (As lateral entry with three years experience and this is my 3rd Company) Have changed 3 companies in three years. 4. B.Sc (Computer Science) Edit : Added hike from my first company (point 2) 23.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 58


Amit Ranjan, worked at Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Written Jul 6, 2016

When I joined my first company my CTC was 3.16 LPA. After 3 Month I switched to another Government PSU and at that time my CTC was 7.5 LPA. Again after 1.5 Years i switched to another Government PSU and my current CTC is around 12 LPA. Apart from that i receive some other allowances too. P.S — After working for around 5 Years and in 3 different sectors, i want you to tell that though Money is an important fa ctor but that should not be the only factor while choosing your job. If you are passionate about what you do and really keen to learn, Money will follow eventually. 6.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 25


Rich Frank Written Oct 31, 2015

First Job: Tech Support for software company, 1999 Salary: $28,000/year + benefits -- laid off in 2004, by that time I was making $40,000/year + benefits Second Job: Trainer (the tech support, then quality assurance) for software company, 2005 Salary: $30,000/year + benefits https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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-- laid off in 2013, by that time I was making $40,000/year + benefits Current Job: "Computer Handyman", self employed, since late 2013 Income: $18,000 first full year, $27,000 second full year, on pace for $33,000 for this year. My wife has a steady income of $35,000 + benefits, so we're able to pay the bills and have insurance, just not building any savings yet. I've never been happier with my work, but certainly will be less stressed when we have a little more financial security. Education: BS in Math, BS in Secondary Education. I was all set to be a high school math teacher after college, but the tech jobs paid %30 more, and that was a field with which I was more comfortable anyway. 3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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June 2005: dropped out of engineering 3rd year Feb 2006: approx 3000 from freelance work of e-learning. Roamed all around with my scooter for business. Nov 2006: ZERO since not able to make any money Aug 2007 : 20,000 per month as client service job. Since I was dropout and no company was ready to hire me as software developer. One small company hired me with my freelance experience. June 2008 : 25000 per month because of being good performer. (slogged for at least 12 hours a days including Saturdays under immense pressure) Nov 2008 : 22000 per month because of market crash (reduced salaries of employees helped others to retain job) June 2009 : ZERO (left job to complete final year of engineering) Dec 2009: 30,000 (got night shift job with client servicing, so that I can complete my college. thanks to the company who hired me). No hike for the next 1.5 year as per Lala company policy. Was named as “Champion” by company for being good performer and designated as project manager. Managed variety of projects. Got good reputation in company if not good salary. May 2011: 36,000 (20% increment. company’s focus changed to other business. The services I was looking after is not that important). I preferred to live with company on moral grounds since company helped me to complete my engineering while working. Started doing structured project management. Started preparing for PMP. May 2012 : 39,200 (10 % increment, company financials are not that good) Sept 2013 : 45,000 i.e. 5.4 L per annum (same reason, company fi nancials not good. My wife was expecting baby so had to leave morals aside and thought of switching. Bad academics didn't let me move to big and well-known companies. Dec 2013: 54,000. 6.75 L per annum Switched my job to small but MNC. I was selected by this company after 3 months of long hunt. I was selected after interviewing 14 candidates. Joined as project manager. Mar 2015: 8.12 L per annum (was employee of the year, managed very crucial projects got selected for global training program. Visited UK for the first time. Still salary was issue). Completed my PMP certification. Jan 2016: 13 L per annum (switched job, got into IT company as project manager). Feb 2016: 13L per annum sent to client location. Was sent just as scapegoat. But I did well, rather very well. + Ext ra 30,000 per month allowances. Got awarded as best performer. Monthly G ross Salary: 1,35,000.00.


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Aug 2016: Got increment of 2L so the new salary 15,00,000 + 30,000 per moth allowances. = 18,60,000.00 so reached from 3000 to 1.55 Lakh. Most of my fellow project managers are from IIT or equivalent institutes who started off with 5–6 lakh per annum. I am close to reach them. By academics I am nowhere close to them. But still I have gained quite alot attention and respect from my team. 4.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 51

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1300% (roundabout) (2011–2016) 2011 : HP, Bengaluru : 3.1 lakhs per annum 2012 : no job, left HP, preparing for CAT and all, couldn’t make it, 98.73 percentile with average acads ( 82 in 10th, 84 in 12th , btech from a government college in lucknow, 64.6% ) 2013 : got through SSC, joined CAG Bengaluru, same salary, only difference ,now with government job. 2013 end: left CAG, started my own venture, made around $36000 in first year, $40000 ish in second year, $65000 in third year. Hoping to do good in fourth fiscal year too. I am location independent entrepreneur and have decided to leave Bengaluru, and live close to my parents. After-all, what’s the point of having freedom in the work you do if you dont taste the freedom. difference that I made in my life: The ITR that I file now is more or less equal to my first salary. wrote this post while I was drunk one day, has all of it. What is your monthly salary? “ The dream is still there, it's still there. I could not make it to the colleges that I dreamed of, but I did something worthwhile. I can now see myself and tell myself that I am not just some guy who gave up because he was tired to continue. There are many tear shedding stories, instances where I had sat numb, staring in the dark, and thinking that life is over. I hope I have not diluted the sacredness of this thread in any manner. Life does rewards us, we just have to dream that reward and work towards it. I could not clear CAT in three years and I saw the success that I had dreamed of in just one year. That makes me think that I was not committed that much to CAT prep and just wanted to crack CAT to prove my self-worthiness to others and me. Now, I just try to prove to myself and maybe that is what matters ultimately. We have to dream the dream for ourselves, not for any other person, not for your gf, not for your parents, it has to be you.” thanks. Foadbear 19.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 63



Occupation:- Telecom Research and Development Engineer (Telecom software development). First year salary:- Rs.4,75,000. Position:- R&D Engineer at a top telecom equipment (Finnish Giant) MNC. Got a hike of 22% in my first year.


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Second year salary:- Rs.5,85,000. Same position. Got a hike of 35% in the second year due to promotion and top performance. Third year salary:- Rs. 7,89,000. Got a hike of 13% in the third year. Lowest so far but understandable considering the heavy restructuring. Present Salary:- Rs.8,92,000. Educational Qualifications:- B.E in Electronics and Communication from a Tier 3 college in Bangalore. Got placed into the company on campus. I love the company so much that I wish I could retire here some day. But, I do have MBA plans so maybe could come back to a higher position some day depending on how destiny has planned :) 5.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 34


Sharad Mathur , admires what he sees and appreciates what he likes. Written Jan 12

3090% times increase (from 2004 - 2016) 1. Occupation: Merchant Navy 2. First salary, year - $275 / month, 2004 3. Present salary, year - $8500 / month, 2016 4. Educational qualifications: Diploma in Nautical Sciences from Bits Pilani, Rajasthan & Master’s License in the subject field. Presently sailing as Chief Officer on merchant vessels working for a Hong Kong based company, due for Command. 2.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 10

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1. Occupation: Software Developer 2. First Salary : a. Year 2006–2007. Rs. 1500/Month, I was working i n computer institute as a computer trainer/ pc repairman(They gave me an identity card as Hardware Engineer, though I was just in 11th/12th Standard working full time in holidays). b. Year 2007–2009. Rs. 2500/Month, Shifted to institute clo se to near my college and started to teach programming languages (At the time was doing Bsc, this was like a part time job). c. Year 2009–2011. Rs. 3500/ Month, In another i nstitute as a manager. (Failed in some subjects in Bsc, because 11th-12th done from MCVC-ET, have to move to BCA, so found an institute close to that college.) 3. Present Salary : a. Year 2011. Rs. 8000/ Month, (I was in last year of BCA and got this opportunity but this was a full time job, had managed both college and job.) b. Year 2016(Present) Rs. 60000/ Month, (Completed my Graduation as well as Masters, owns a car, got married, have my own home.) 4. Education: a. 11th-12th MCVC (Electronics) b. BCA c. MCM https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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d. Will try to app ear for PHD. Just for information my average daily working hours was around 14hrs/day. Now it is less around 8hrs/day. Thanks for reading. 8.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 108


Priyanshu Singh, Summer intern at Amazon.com, 2014 & at Codenation.co.in, 2015 Written Dec 29

7,230.45% increase since first salary. 1: Occupation - Former Tuition Teacher, Software Engineer now. 2: Year - 2013 My first salary was Rs. 2,000 per month. when I used to train school kids for programming. I taught them C++, Java and basic data structures for their Junior High Computer Science Course. I was still a university student in my sophomore year. 3: Year - 2015, I was making around Rs. 18,000 per month. Two source of income University research grant Rs. 1 2,400 pm and around Rs. 6,000 pm as tuition fees from students. I was in my final year of the university. 4: Year - 2016, My current salary is Rs. 146,609 per month, after taxes. I’m a software developer at a startup. Education Qualification - BS+MS dual degree, NIT Rourkela, 2016 Graduate. 16.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 151

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I consider myself OPPORTUNIST! 1st Job Salary: 6,000/- month , January 2012 Salary while resigning: 25,000/- month, October 2014 2nd Job Salary (At t he time of joining) : 45,000/- month, November 2014 2nd Job Salary (Current) : 60,000/- month, September 2015 till date *INR* Qualification : B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering) Yes, working in IT industry like everyone else ;) .——-——-Overall growth 10 times, 1,000% in less than 4 years——————-. Credit goes to Never said No to any work. Respected every colleague whether above/below my position. Never rejected any opportunity to grow. Even used other job offers to get increment to self-satisfaction. For first 3 years, family was second priority after job. A middle income family accepted it with full happiness. Sincere apologies for bad English and use of grammar. 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13

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Anup Agarwal, Pivoting on spreadsheets (pun intended) Written Oct 19, 2015


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I started my career as a part time accountant in an accounting firm at Rs. 2000 a month in August 2007. That was more of an internship than a job, but nevertheless 35 hour per week. I got frequent breaks for my college and exams. And I met the love of my life there, Microsoft Excel. Cannot complain. After 8 years, a graduate degree, a post graduate diploma, a painful investment banking job, a bit of soul searching, a leap of faith, lot of family support today I do what I absolutely love. I am an freelance spreadsheet consultant. I charge a little over Rs. 2000 per hour. 9.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 23

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Sasi K Kanth, acc ounts executive (2016-present) Written Tue

I haven't seen any answer from CA(chartered accountant) back ground. So decided to write one. Joined CA course after seeing high pay immediately after passing course as explained by a private educational institute . After clearing CPT in 2011 and IPCC in 2012 joined a big audit firm in our town/city as article assistant under a chartered accountant and got 2,000 /- per month for 3 years. Later from 2016 gave CA final attempts , but couldn't clear. So thought to work and study. Joined a big diagnostic company as accounts executive with a net salary of 15,500/p.m which I believe is an under pay to the work I do. I did CMA parallel to CA and the final result will come in Feb 17. I am confident that I would update this answer with an amount which would sound better. 2013–16 2000 pm/- article assistant 2016- present 15,500 pm/Technical increase. 775% To be updated soon. 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Year 2010- 9000 PM Year 2016- 60000 PM Profession : Pharmaceuticals I'm very much interested in to marketig, during my college days itself I've done some ground work for job and I came to know that to enter in to marketing minimum sales experience required. I did my B.Pharmacy in the year 2010, by luck I got my first job on the last day of my college and that's my first job. In 2010 a B.pharmacy candidate working as a medical representative of a great thing for companies. Went to training for 23 days and obviously stood first in all examinations during training. By talent I good selected in one of the top company( where the old generation medical reps feel that is impossible to any one to join in this company) as a medical rep and earned some good experience and shifted another research and marketing oriented company.


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In all these companies I learned a lot many things which are required for marketing team. Joined in my dream role PRODUCT MANAGER, from here my actual journey started years passed now currently working in one of the Top companies in Indian pharma market. After reading this entire story you may feel that I boasting about myself. But, when I am earning nearly 25k within 1 1/2 year of my career 1k Views Upvote

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1. Occupation - Software Engineer 2. First Salary - ₹ 1500/month year 2006, Occupation “coolie in a Textile firm”. 3. Present Salary - ₹ 14L/year 4. Educational Qualifications - B.E(Electrical and Electronics Engineering). 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 15

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I chose to answer this question being anonymous for obvious reasons. I’ll start from the educational qualifications first as it comes first Xth - 64.5% XII - 67.2% B.Tech in Computer Science - 73% I used to be an average mediocre student and improved my percentage slowly and gradually. I started working in 2009 when there was lot of hue and cry on recession and companies are not coming for hiring. I passed my engineering from a private college which is not very popular for placements and all and the reason for that is scoring low marks in AIEEE. My parents want me to get admission into diploma as I have scored good rank in its entrance exam but its my choice to go for engineering otherwise I have to study 2 years more. I am basically from a three tier city and opportunities there are limited. I started doing job in 2009 for a small IT firm consisting of 25 employees as a business analyst with a stipend of 3000 per month and after 3 months they increased my salary to 5000 per month. After about more than 7 years of experience and working for some of the big companies and I am presently drawing 75000 per month which excludes the money which I earn from onsite visits. So in 7 years it increased by 25 times 6.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 45


Shashi Kumar , Been there done that Written Oct 18

Not mine, I will tell you my father’s salary. He joined as a basic clerk in BSNL with a mere monthly wage of 700 rupees. The year was 1984. He is the eldest one and has 2 brothers and 3 sisters all married and well settled now. But when I look back into 80’s again, my Dad, at the age of 24 had 5 sibling and aging parents to take care of. All lived in village while my Dad was the only one working in Bangalore. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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He appeared for many internal exams and started studying like a school kid preparing for Board Exam. He got married at the age of 26 to my beautiful Mom. His salary gradually increased to 1200 per month. He didn’t give up. He gave more exams, and got promoted quicker than his peers. Now, he is 54 and was recently promoted as Deputy General Manager. Currently his salary is around 1,10,000 per month. Which is a whopping 15614.28% increase. He is my best Inspiration. PS: I am a Software Engineer in one of the “Big Four”. Started with 15,000 per month and I get around 85,000 now. 5.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 53

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I am 28 year male, working with MNC Company. I have been through a lot, one thing is true according to my experience “SALARY IS NEVER ENOUGH”. 2005 1. Occupation : Carrier 2. Salary : INR 2.00 RS Per Truck (Max INR 10.00 RS Per Day) 2007 1. Occupation : Welder in fabrication Shop 2. Salary : INR 60.00 RS Per Day 2010 1. Occupation : Truck Driver 2. Salary : INR 10,000 RS Per Month 2012 1. Occupation : Software Engineer 2. Salary :INR 15000 RS Per month 2014 1. Occupation : Software Analyst – Cloud Technologies 2. Salary : INR 56,969 RS Per month 2016 1. Occupation : Sr. Software Analyst – Cloud Technologies 2. Salary :INR 74,835 RS Per Month EDIT : 1 Thanks all for response and upvotes !!! For those who is asking how did i became a software engineer from truck driver ? I have completed master degree in M.Sc .Computer science from Distance education, and this is not about how do i? this is about how much salary? 13.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 128



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Left at 20L in 7+years (and not talking about dollars from onsite assignments, this is Indian salary) Engineering graduate 17.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 53

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Gauri Sankar , Retired banker from a nationalised bank in India Written Dec 25

Very interesting question: In fact I would like that our youngsters should know the facts - the change in monev value and the increase in cost of products each year 1971: I joined as a typist in one Electricity supply company and my first monthly salary was Rs. 210/- per month 1972: I resigned the job and joined as a stenographer in Tuticorin Harbour Project and my salary was Rs/ 270/= per month 1972 (October) - I resigned the above job and joined as a clerk in a nationalised bank in Tamilnadu and my salary was Rs. 310- per month During this time, the cost of one tea was 0.10 paise and I could complete my breakfast for Rs. 1.00 and my lunch for Rs. 1.25 Today one average lunch costs Rs. 90/- at Chennai and it is almost ninety times more than the price during 1972 I continued my services in the same bank till retirement and retired from the services of the bank by April, 2011 and my last salary was Rs. 53000/- per month 3.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 64

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Percentage - 2380% :) 1. Occupation - Software Engineer. 2. First salary, year - 42k per anuum (Rs 3500 per month) 2009 3. Present salary, year - 10 L PA - 2016 4. Educational qualifications - BE (I.T) 1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I thought about giving the answer but then taken aback after reading the other answers here. :D Anyways.. 1. First Job: Kolkata, Not MNC a. Associate Software Engineer, 2012–2014, 2.4 - 3.2 lpa b. S oftware QA Engineer, 2014–2016, 3.2 - 4.2 lpa 2. Second job: Delhi, Not MNC a. Test Engineer, 2016-Present, 7.2 lpa Qualification: 1. X: 83% 2. XII: 79% 3. B.TECH: 7.93 8.2k Views · View Upvotes


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Occupation : Standard IT Nerd. First salary, year : 3L per annum, 2014 Present salary, year : 9L per annum, from next month 14L per annum, 2 016 Educational qualifications: Master of Science in Information Technology. ! Reasons for being here : Quick adaptation towards changes: I started with as a Java Developer, soon transformed into a Full Stack Web developer and then observing the trend, jumped into Full time Front end developer. Quick Job Changes: Made three job changes in last 2 years. Left first after 14 months, second after 6 months and 3rd after 3 months. Front end development is in demand and i am cashing out the opportunity. But none of the times was i the person who approached. It was always the other way around. Hell bent Learner: I usually say this dialogue about me : Jo bhi kaam, jaisa bhi kaam, karunga [Whatever it i s, whichever it is, i’ll do]. I don’t love technologies, i am in love with knowledge and the perks offered by the job. 5.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 60


Thiru Venkadam, Module Leader at ALTEN Calsoft Labs (2014-present) Written Oct 6

Well. So many people making so much money ;) I am not in the league of any of them. Still, it is a question in quora and I can answer. So here goes: 1. First company: ₹ 5000 per month with only one saturday off. Started in 2010. 2. Current company: ₹ 90000 per month I could have made even more impressive salary. I switched 2 companies in b etween and had a few goals before switch. a. Will first let the current company knows that I am moving out. Only then I would even ready my resume. b. Will fix a salary in mind and that will be my expected CTC. I do not take less nor will bargain with others saying I have an offer for so and so. c. Once I get an offer with my expected CTC, I will stop attending interviews. That is, If I ever give a word to some one saying that I will join them if they agree for my expected pay, that's the end of the job lookup for me. NOTE: The stupid reason, which I still tell myself for reason (c), is that I value my word more than the money. I do know this is stupid and this literally cost me lakhs and lakhs of rupees. But still, I don't care. 1.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Prashant Kumar , works at Youth Debate Society Written Dec 26

Hello Everyone, Before I start writing about my financials have a look at my background. Average Student, Great at sports, Hated English throughout my academics I started earning after my Class XII, joined TATA Steel as an Apprentice earning stipend of Rs 1,800 per month in 2002. Now I earn approx 100 X my first salary in 14 years. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Subhasanket Ray, Senior Information Security Analyst Written Jul 23, 2016

B-Tech in CSE 2012 batch. 1st Job Dec. 2012 - 7000/Month as Network Engg. 2nd Job July 2013 - 15000/Month as Network and security consultant. Got hike18000/Month 3rd Job September 2014 - 30,000/Month Information Security Analyst. Got hike- 50,000/Month 4th Job Nov 2015 (till now)- 65,000/ Month as Senior Information Security Analyst. Growth ~840% Highly Satisfied. In those years I have motivated myself both professionally and financially. Looking forward to achieve more :) 1.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation : Software Engineer Educational Qualification : B.E. in computer science First salary : Rs 1.9LPA year 2009 Second Salary : Rs 6.2LPA year 2012 Third Salary : Rs 10.5 LPA year 2013 Fourth Salary : Rs 24.5 LPA year 2016 I started with one of service based company in Pune..didnt have much knowledge about technology(as is the case in most Indian colleges but slugged it out in campus interviews and got through). I am currently working with one of the top most Investment banks. And I am happy as I could ever be! :) 8.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 69



First Job (2008): During 10th std summar holidays, worked for a gaming shop per day 40rs Monthly: 1200RS Second Job(2010): During 12th std summar holidays, delivery boy for a medical shop per day 100rs Monthly:3000RS Third Job(2012–2014): Freelancing during my college days. Monthly:1000–10000Rs https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Fourth Job(2014): Trainee at my final year of engineering and 5 months after completion of engineering daily 700rs. Monthly: 15000rs Current Job(2014–2016): Joined as developer in a mid sized startup company for Monthly:25000rs Then after one year Monthly:31,000 rs Waiting for this year revision to take effective from next month :) P.S: I am able to complete my B.E in computer science with the help of education loan. 3.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 22

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Around 440% Age-24 Qualification -B.Tech(IT) from third tier engineering college in India. First Salary - 16,700 per month(April-2014) Present Salary - 74,433 per month(Jan- 2017) I would like to add more Got my first appraisal in June 2015(A mere 1100 p.m) Salary in June 2015 - 17,800 p.m I was working in a support project not much learning, argued with the management and was put on bench. Got myself into a development project,worked really very hard and negotiated my salary with the HR. Salary in January 2016 - 32,500 p.m Continued to work hard and got a job offer from another company in Dec-16. Now working with the new company. 9.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 50



Anon, since my salary is supposed to be confidential, I do respect it :) 2010 - 4.2lpa fixed (SW Engineer) 2016 - 20lpa fixed (Sr. Product Manager) Ed Background : Computer Engineering from a lesser known Govt University in 2010. Mantra: Never indulge in office politics but be aware of it. Don’t linger on for promotions, switch when you get bored/are stuck. Invest in yourself. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Current position - Business Analyst Started in 2014 at 2.47 LPA during training , 3.15 after completion. Worked for barely a month after completing my training. Joined a well-established and growing start up at 1.8 LPA in October 2015 and currently I'll draw a salary of 4.5 LPA this October. I was jobless for a period of 7 months or so while I was looking for jobs. I was placed in two MNCs during my BE(ECE) graduation and joined the one “famous” Indian MNC as a S oftware Engineer, completed my training and was allotted to a hellish project. We had to look at the screen for the entire duration and if an alarm comes, forward it to the designated team for solution. It was an on-site project where we had to sit in the customer service center of the client, no fixed leaves and 6 days working. Did I mention there were also rotational shifts. Anyhow, I asked for release and was slated to be given a project in my hometown (medical proofs that my mother was ill and needed someone), the HR was quite helpful and I was happy to have a job in my own city. But, my manager had other thoughts and did not release me, citing I was unprofessional and everything was a facade just to get away from responsibilities. I did not work for another day after he said things like that for my mother and quit. Searched for jobs in my hometown, gave a lot of interviews, I did clear in a few places but one thing or the other stopped me from working. In the end joined the company I’m currently working for and I am happy and contend. The work is great, I have a great manager, been given a promotion - probably the youngest one and in this 1 year my salary was increased twice. Summarizing the numbers: First Job: 2.47, approximately 18K in hand for 4 months and 3.15, approx. 23k in hand. Second Job: 1.8, approx. 12k in hand and currently 4.5, approx. 33k in hand. Increase: 82% considering first drawn salary. 150% considering first salary in this organization. 8.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 17


Shivranjan Kolvankar , Teach for India, Emerson Innovation Center Written Aug 8

Interesting question to answer. 2014 - Embedded Systems Developer - Emerson Innovation Center - 3.2 L Per Annum. 2015 - Teach for India Teaching as a Leadership Fellow - Close to 2.75 L Per Annum + Perks (Love of 91 Kids + Real Analysis of Education Scenario of India + Working with Passionate Change makers of India + Support of TechCell of SCERT + Delicious Food and Inspiring but Impact ful stories + Finding your own light). Far from what salary can offer and what life can give. Chance to impact 7 lakh teachers and approximately 100 Kids from Maharashtra is a great. Beyond money and only about passion. 1.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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First Salary: 3.18 Lac per year, 2013–14 June 2014: Joined one of the top B-schools in Mumbai August 2016: Joined Colgate Palmolive, Goa Present salary: 27 lac per year (CTC) 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 18



Qualifications.. B.Tech 70% MS from UK 67.08% After MS I came back to India. 1st 6 months of 2014 jobless…was trying to find job and working for a friend for his Android App without any salary. In June 2014 joined as Support Emgineer for Microsoft EPS in NCR area. 19k per month. This job was a all night shift job. DEC 2014 absconded pervious to join IBM in Bangalore 21k per month but this was a Java Developer job so it was a better for my development. Dec 2015 joined a big Startup in India as a Consultant Android Developer. Salary 45k per month. Nov 2016 will join as Senior Engineer Android in an MNC. Salary 80k per month. All salaries are in INR after all deductions and taxes. Also my resume does not have my 1st job as Support Engineer as it not relavent and will actually weigh down my profile.. 10.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 47



In 1987, there was no IT industry. It was only computer manufacturing and software development for in house (India) requirements. Salary was ₹1000 (one thousand; no zero is missed) a month. Many of batchmates who joined public sector companies were drawing twice as much with subside food and free transport to office. In 2015, my salary was 40L CTC pre annum. Interestingly in one of the management meetings, the participants were asked to predict salary after 25 years from 1994. I predicted it to be ₹ 25L per annum. Everyone laughed at me and my answer was eliminated as way off from other's predictions. 1.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Gopalam Vanapalli, OPERATIONS OFFICER at Indian Oil Corporation Limited Written Jan 18

I am a b.tech graduate (ECE) passed out in 2015. I got 5700 as my first salary when joined as a trainee in a product development company in June 2015. Training ended on Dec 2015. Afeter that I got around 10000 after completion of the training and my designation is FIRMWARE ENGINEER. Then I got selected in IOCL in Oct 2016 based on my GATE 2016 performance. Now I am getting 55000 here and my designation here is OPERATIONS OFFICER. 6.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 39

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I started my job in 2008 after my engineering graduation. My first job was with HCL Chennai location and First Salary was 300000 Indian rupees per year Got salary hike in 2010 June new salary 325000 per year Got new offer a negotiated 540000 per year on august 2010 2011 June another hike to 650000 rupees per year 2012 Feb Joined Wipro for 840000 rupees per year 2013 June - 880000 per year 2014 June 1080000 per year 2015 April to US for 82000 USD per year from Wipro 2016 march Moved to another company for 1 18500 USD per year 2016 November same company 123500 USD I think I have got decent hikes every year and I am happy with what I have. 8.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19

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Well, Very very happy to answer this which made me to remember my past. In my BE 3 rd year 2009, I tried various jobs . Joined a customer care after 20 days realised he dont pay salaries monthly left : Income Zero. Joined an insuarance company tried the luck hardly for 2 - 3 months and no policies enrolled : Income Zero. Met an Data Entry Job provider in Hyderabad Ameerpet , worked for 20 on a work worth of 700INR, he simply said payment got stuck and nothing paid : Income Zero. Met another DataEntry operator , did a work for 5 days : FIRST INCOME IN MY LIFE 500 Rupees (2010). Done with BE by then. Joined a startup company in Hydereabad (2010) on a condition that in a probation for the first 3 months he wont pay me anything , I said ok and joined but he did not pay the salary for 4.5 Months. After 4.5 months the salary started and at the end of 5.5 months I took my first salary 8990. (worked there for 3 more months). Joined CTS in 2011. Salary 3.3 LPA. Left CTS in 2012 and Pramati Technologies : 6.2 LPA. Left Pramati in 2013 and Joined Sapient : 7.75 LPA + (free lance). Left Sapient in 2014 and Joined Flipkart (continuing): 18.5 LPA + (freelance). Thanks a ton , for the question to remind me my past. It was so so painful at the start that I use to skip lunches / breakfast in order to save money as I am from a middle class family. Its barberious but even now I am taking less food quantity just to be on diet , since I had grown fat after eating a lot lot lot and lot more. Now I donate some money to orphonages every month because I know how it feels when hungry. 4.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 43

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Bharadwaj K, works at IBM Written Jan 3

Salary increased 6x ,Yes it is. I started my career in one of the PSU as apprentice trainee(Internship),which is located in Hyderabad. There i used to get 3500/month in 2014 Exactly 1 yr after that i got placed in one of the top MNC's and the salary 21000/month in 2015 It may not be a big amount,but for me it's big hope. Almost 6 times of my initial salary, which gives me the confidence.It's almost 2 years in the company as software engineer. I'm a graduate from a normal engi neering college/Hyderabad. Thanks ! 2.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 15



Qualification: B.Tech - CSE (Lower than tier-3 college) :P First Salary: Rs. 42000/month (2014) Current Salary: Rs. 1,20,000 + Freelancing - Rs. 60,000 (2016) Too lazy to calculate percentage increase :P 972 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Sudesh Agrawal, works at Rizvi College of Engineering Written Dec 28

Roughly 10000% increment in 5 years.

When I took my first ever coaching, it was a private class for Operational Research for a 3rd year BMS student in 2011. I got around 8k, which on an monthly basis, comes to around 667rs per month. Currently, I am working as Assistant Professor at one of engineering college in Mumbai and my salary is roughly 64k per month (6th pay). I'm a post graduate in Electronics and Telecommunication with majors in Antenna and Wave Propagation (M.E. from University of Mumbai) Thanks for a2a. 2.2k Views · View Upvotes · Answer requested by Saipavan Reddy Upvote 18

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1. Mechanical Engineer 2. 2008 - $64,000. Straight out of school working in manufacturing. 3. 2009 - $57,600. Great Recession hits manufacturing industry. 10% pay cut across the board. 4. 2009-2011 - Laid off, unemployed. Gained experience in machine shop for room and board. 5. 2011 - $90,000. changed to utilities industry. 6. Now 2015 - $115,000 7. Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, PE 2.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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367% increase in 3 months. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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- I started my career in March 2016 (age 22). - Graduated in December 2015. 1. Current Occupation : Project Manager. 2. First salary, year - INR 7,500/- March 2016 — Digital Marketing Executive at an Indian Company. 3. Present salary, year - INR 35,000/- June 2016 — Project Manager - IT (India) for a Foreign C ompany. 4. Educational qualifications - Bachelor of Engineering (IT), Mumbai University. by the year end I plan to start a small business/SME on the side and make sure I keep up with the increase rate. Extra Information not pertaining to the question: Tentative Planned Retirement age: 35 Post retirement shall take up theater/writing/teaching. 2.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 14


Boga Kiran Written Jul 25, 2016

Occupation:- Software developer Joined a company in 2012 and had to sign a bond for 4 years . During this period company has provided the education(post graduation) from reputed college. Payscale:First salary 2012 -Rs 7500 per month. Current salary -Rs 20000 per month. I just completed my b ond with the company. Attended few interviews and holding two offers with decent pay scale from top mnc's. First offer -6.5 LPA Second offer - 7.5 LPA i am yet to decide which offer to accept. Based on company and my preferences. Qualification:-bachelor of science , M.SC in computer science (which company provided). 2.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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~4285% Occupation : Software Developer/Product Developer First Salary (2012): INR 7,500 per month(Chose to work for a tiny startup instead of a corporate where I got in through campus placement) Present Salary(offer) : INR 3,06,000 per month(From an international firm) Note: During these 4 years , I was (voluntarily) jobless for about 14 months. :) Educational Qualifications: B.Tech(CSE) from a private university - 58% PS: I co-own a (side)business with my father which we started about 2 years ago. It generates about $100,000 in revenues per annum. 7.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 28




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Software Enginner. Dec 0th year: Intern in a startup - 0 / Month (Free stay and food) May 0th year : Software Engineer Intern Directi - 35000 / Month August 0th year : S oftware Engineer, Directi - 7.6 lpa Oct 0th year: S oftware Engineer, Amazon - 10.5lpa April 3rd year: Software Engineer, Amazon - 16.5lpa Oct 3rd year: Software Engineer, XXX - 80lpa IT engineer from a 3rd grade college. 4.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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R&D Electrical Engineer 105k, 2014 -> 120k, 2015 -> 131k 2016. Not including bonus, which is 15% of base. also around 200k stock bonus over 4 years B.S EE from Caltech 93 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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First Job july 2003: Company SLK Softwares CTC: 216K INR per year Quit after 1 month Second Company: Wipro September 2003: Starting CTC: 180K INR per year July 2009, switched to my current company Sonus Networks Jojning CTC: 1050K per year (600K was my Wipro leaving salary at this stage) Today: 2017 Current CTC: 3600K per year + Stocks Expecting a decent hike in Apr 2017. Through out my career, my worst appraisal rating has been 4/5. Have always received double digit increments. My educational qualifications: BE (Computer Science) from NIE Mysore. I completed the course in 2003 with 78.5% aggregate. PU: 85% CET Ranking: 524 4.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 16

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Seen a growth of 1500% in 5 years. 2011 - Started my carrier as analyst at a technology consulting firm in Bangalore with a yearly salary of $ 6,200. 2012 - Didn't like my work, Came to the US for my MBA . Got a full scholarship and a yearly stipend of $1 2,000 2014 - Moved to the California Bay Area and started working for a semiconductor manufacturer for a annual salary of $65,000. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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2016 - Switched jobs to the retail industry in the same area with an annual salary of $100,000 2017 - Looking at a 5 to 10% natural annual growth along with a soft confirmed promotion giving another 15% increment before the end of the year. Can't Complain for the growth and experience over the years. Education: B.E in electronics and communications, MBA in supply chain management, certification s from Harvard and UC Berkeley. 4.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 18



In 1984 my father worked as a receptionist in a 5 star hotel. His salary was less than 15,000 INR per month without benefits. Today he works in a very reputable company. He started as a telephone operator and in that same company got promoted to a Sales Account Management Specialist. He right now has a monthly salary of 400,000 INR with benefits. He can literally say, "Started from the bottom, now I'm here". 2.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13

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Going anonymous, since I’m still part of the corporate world and doing really well financially and professionally. Don’t want my career to get in stake with this answer. Year 2002 Education- Pursuing Grads Job : Brochures distributor iN Kolkata Salary : Rs 100/Day ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2002 Education- Pursuing Grads Job : Mobile Postpaid connection salesman. Door-2-Door in Kolkata Salary : 2000/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2003 Education- dropped college Job : Call Center Executive Salary : 9000/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2004 Education- college dropout Job : Call Center Executive Salary : 8600/month(Lower salary, since I was fired and got to join anywhere) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2005–2006 https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Education- college dropout Job Changed 6 call centers Salary : 24000/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2006–2008 Education- college dropout Job : Software Sales for a public limited company in Noida Salary : 30000/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2008–2009 Education- dropped college Job : Software Sales in World’s No. 1 Software Company Salary : 80000/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2010–2014 Education- college dropout Job :Moved to US on a work visa. Worked for a mid-sized tech support company managing sales Salary : 500000/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Year 2014-present(Moved back to India after saving 50L cash and paying up for home loan) Education- dropped college Job : Regional Sales Manager for a mid sized software company Salary : 20000/month 7.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 40



2001:management trainee in a NBFC:Rs4500pm 2002:Asst Manager:Rs6000pm 2003:Branch Manager:Rs25000pm 2006:Divisional Manager:Rs50000pm 2009:State Head:Rs75000pm 2011:National sales head:Rs1.25 lakhspm 2014:Overseas deputation:Rs4.5 lakhs pm(in Indian cu rrency, basically non-sense bcos of change in living costs etc) 2.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Science Graduate First salary: 10000/- INR a month, year 2013 {as a writer} Current: 100000/- INR a month {more or less} as a freelance writer, photographer, videographer


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Kapil Patel, Software engineer (2013-present) Written Aug 19

500% Backend Web developer First salary 4000 INR per month , year 2013 (july) Present salary 20000 INR per month , year 2016 Bachelor of engineering (computer science) from a non reputation college. 615 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Current Occupation - Digital Marketing manager in an MNC managing all paid marketing efforts across several countries Current Salary - 15L+ /annum Qualification: Graduate in Mathematics Place - Bangalore Started as a security guard in Wipro Technologies in 2003. My duty was to stand as the gate, check employee id and open the gate. Also will be posted in several areas inside the campus like sewage treatment plant (as the wall was not proper there), basement parking etc Salary then - Rs. 10/hour. No weekly off. No extra money for Over Time. Will get 10rs / hour for extra working hours also.

Here is my journey I am from a village in Kerala. Studied in government aided school. Also my pre degree and degree were in colleges in our town. Basically I had no much connection with outside world. After completing my graduation in 2002 I didn’t know what to do. Lot of friends joined MCA, MBA, engineering etc and due to financial problems I couldn’t join anywhere. I tried UPSC for officer in Indian Army (SSC) and passed the written test. By this time it was 2013 and I lost one year. My uncle was in Bangalore with his family. I asked him whether he can take me to Bangalore and he agreed. So I came to Bangalore on 18th March 2003. Stayed with them for 3 months looking for a job. I was not fluent in English, I was a fresher and no one was there to guide me. Way back in 2003 mobile phones were no so popular. I went to several companies with my resume and handed over it to the security. No interview calls happened. Three month passed and suddenly three things happened. 1) My uncle told me to go back to village and he will inform me if anyone calls for interview 2) I was called for face to face interview for Army selection, which is in Patna (if i remember correctly) 3) I got a job as security guard in Wipro. I knew that if I go back to home town that’s it and I will have to settle for a job there. If I go to Patna for interview and I fail, again I have no other option but go back to home town. So i decided to join as a security guard. We were given training on how to behave with employees, how to attend calls etc before joining the company because I think everyone was less educated and I think I had the highest qualification :) So the first lesson was “ You are a Zero, don’t try to be a hero” and you know how motivational is this when you are about to join a job :) https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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I worked there for around 2 years. By the time I picked up my English. Then this Orkut era happened and got in touch with a few friends. Came to know that they are working in Progeon (now Infosys BPO). Then I thought if they can join such a big company why not me. Tried and got selected. Irony is that I was selected for Yahoo project based on my English (they had essay writing as a part of the test). I learned basic of search marketing there then moved to several digital marketing agencies and now reached here. Going Anonymous not because I am ashamed of my past. All my colleagues know what I was. I am an introvert and don’t like getting attention, thats it :) 8.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 181



1. Occupation : Software engineer 2. First salary, year : 3.16 LPA at TCS , 2012 after campus selection, worked for an year then resigned for higher studies. 3. Present salary, year : 13 lpa bas e , working at a reputed MNC since 2015 after campus selection. 4. Educational qualifications ; M-Tech, 2013–15 from a tier 1 college and B -Tech from tier 2 college in CSE. 18.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 36



M.Sc computers 2005 pass out. worked as a lecturer in pune for 8000/pm 6 months down the line, started my career in IT as a trainee for 4000/pm Aug 2006 - switched company 2.4 lacks/annum Apr 2007 - Onsite( USA ) Aug 2007 - 6.5 lacks/annum few more short onsite trips Dec 2010 - long term onsite ( started with 70K USD ) till 2014 i was making 105K USD. Dec 2014 - came back to India - 16 lacks/annum 2015 - 19.6/annum mid 2016 - 22 lacks/annum currently on notice p eriod - offers range from 27 - 30 lacks/annum for Tech Architect role so in a career of 11 years in IT, from 4000 to 30 lacks/annum with ~5 years USA deputation. never forgot where i came from ( a very small village in MP-Multai ) be fearless, take risk, and keep learning. so far so good, been a long fulfilling journey. best luck! 2.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 44

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SAP Consultant First job salary : Rs.2000 - year 2008 - It was part time .. just for a month Second job salary : Rs. 2,500 - year 2014 - Intern in an IT startup Third job : Rs. 16,000 - year 2014–15 Executive IT Fourth job : Rs.18,400 - year 2016 Executive trainee - Stores 5th job : Rs.25,000 - current job - SAP Consultant Educational qualifications : BCA,MCA. 6.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13



Occupation: Software Engineer, works in internet security space. Skills: C, System concepts, DS, Algos. First salary 2.8L p a in 2014-Feb. Present 13.7L pa + some stocks in 2017-Jan. Expecting 30% hike in coming 3 months. I’m an Engineering graduate from Tier-3 college of batch2013. 2.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 14

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Occupation : User Interface Developer Occupation : Education Qualifications : Qualifications : BE - CSE IN XXX Company (2011 - 2014) 1st Year (2011 - 2012) : 7Lakh 2nd Year( 2012-2013): 7.7 7.7 Lakh (10% Hike) 3rd Year Year (2012-2013): 10 Lakh (25% Hike) Joined YYY Company at the end of 3d Year (2014-2015) (2014-2015) 4th Year - Month 1 : 19Lakh 4th Year - Month 5 : 21.5 Lakh (10% Hike) 4th Year - Month 10 : 26 Lakh (22% Hike) Joined ZZZ Company at the End End of 4th Year Year (2015 - Present) 5th Year - 57 Lakh Edit 1 : Would like to say one more thing . The more you earn , the more you get hungry . The hunger for money never dies and one never gets satisfied. You only graduate to spending more , living more luxury and spending more and the loop never ends. P.S : I was more happy when i was earning less then what i am earning now. 8.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 26



First job (two years ago) ago ) : 1.8LPA Current job : 9.5 LPA Profession: Software Engineer. https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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When I passed out of college , I had 4 offers in hand. All of them I had got from job portals. My college is a tier-3 college where placements are bad. I rejected a company which asked me to sign a 2 years bond for a mere package of 2.4LPA. Later, I rejected all the offers I had due to my a heartbreak. I was in depression back then and had a low emotional intelligence. After two months, I landed a job interview in a small company which I cleared but rejected because they offered me 20k/mo salary and I thought I deserved atleast 25k. After sitting at home for 3 months and with my ego melted away, I took up a job in frustration that paid me 15k. Job Title : Business development executive Company size : 5 developers Job role: Converting website contract leads into business and training the juniors in PHP and guiding them to built websites Left the job in 3 months. Fast forward 2 years.. I landed a job of 9.5LPA with 2 years of expertise in my domain. I have an iit-ian with equal experience reporting directly to me. (The reason I am stating this is because I believe anyone can do well in their career given they have genuine interest and curiosity regardless of the level of their college/University ) I am refraining from revealing much details for job security. 5.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19



20th June 2011 I started my first job as a Data entry operator. Age : 17 years. Salary : INR 4k / month Five years down the line. 20th May 2016. Profile: Front end Web developer. Age : 22 Salary : INR 45K / month Reason for anonymity. anonymity. We live in a society where the talent of people are judged and measured by how much they earn. Though I know there are very matured people are here on Quora, But I don't want to be praised or anything. Last five years I have worked hard and and have made my self capable of achieving something I always dreamt. I am just another average guy https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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Peace! 2.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 34



Occupation: central banker First Salary: 3.15lac (2010) of course it was TCS Present Salary: 5lac (if considered in hand coponent) but in government, its the perks and benefits that matter, if added then it is 13lac CTC Education: Engineer in IT 6.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Software sales 2. Year 1 salary, $36,000. Total compensation after commissions/bonus, $61,000 3. Year 5 salary, $65,000. $65,000. Total compensation after commisisons/bonus, ~$140,000160,000 4. Bachelors Degree 1.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occu pation :- Embedded System engineer Qualification :- B.tech in electronics and communication 1. Year 2014 :- placed in startup. Package :- 2.16 LPA 2. Year 2016 :- got job in Solar EPC company and Embedded department started by me package :- 2.9 LPA 3. Year 2017 January :- above solar company stared a new embedded company joined as senior embedded engineer package :- 3.7 LPA 4.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 21



Occupation: Software engineer in IT services MNC First salary: 3lpa , 2010 Present salary: 6.42lpa, 2016 Educational qualification: B.E ECE Full of politics. No satisfaction with the job and also salary. But no other way. 2.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Darpan Desai, Desai, works at Diebold Written Dec 14

After Automobile engineering (booming field in India) First salary - 8500/- per month (ford service station)~107$ per month. Second job( L & T, Submarine designer)- 9800/- per month.~122$ per month. https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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MBA( Marketing & Operations)- chose data analytics as career (booming across world, even I like it very much) current Job (Diebold systems p rivate limited)-20000/- per month~250$ per month. I was in top 10% throughout my studies. So In India there there is no correlation beyween study & money you earn (myth) Its not hardwork, dedication, smart work here, there are factor luck, contacts, having good boss etc. In India reservation is other bullshit. The list goes on. You can't make lemonade, when life gives you lemon. 4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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June 2014 : 5 lpa Nov 2015 - Present : 13.5 lpa I completed my graduation from VIT University in Computer Science stream . When I joined the college, I never really thought of the salary or the company I want to join. All I knew at that time was that there was 100% placements at VIT. So I was happy and carefree for the first 2 years. But as soon as I reached my 3rd year, I became a little serious about this stuff and gradually became more aware of the companies and their packages that came for recruitment. Finally the 4th year started with a bang. There were companies like Flipkart, eBay which came in the 1st week itself and their packages were more than 10 lpa. I couldn't get selected in those companies. A couple of months passed by and even after making to the final of 2–3 companies , I couldn't get selected. By October the companies which were coming were paying 4–6 lpa. In the first week of October I got selected in a startup and the salary was 5 lpa with a joining bonus of 50K. I cannot even describe that feeling. Though the package was less than I had anticipated earlier, I was happy to finally get a job offer. So finally I joined in December 2013 for internship in the same company at 15 k per month. In June 2014, they converted me full time and I was drawing somewhere near 37 k. Then came the appraisal season. The condition of the company was really bleak and it was going thorough a resource crunch. When I asked my seniors in the company about the hike, I was shocked to know that last year there was no hike for any employee. When my manager called me in his office for appraisal discussion, I went in with little hopes. To my surprise he told me that my package has been increased to 8.3 lpa. That was unbelievable for me. Though I was pretty hard working and sincere in my work, I never expected this much of a hike. The primary reason for this hike was that already a lot of employees had left the company. So the company wanted to retain the remaining employees. Till then I was working as a Java developer. But I had interest in Android programming. So around August I started to look for a job in Android development. After spending 1 month for interview preparation and giving the interview of 4 companies, I had offer from 2 well funded start-ups. One of them was offering me 15 lpa and the other 13.5 lpa + 1 lac joining bonus. I decided to go with the latter after my assessment of both the companies. 12.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 177

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June 2016: first salary Rs 36,000 per month. Jan 2017: salary Rs 70,000 per month. Almost 100% increment in 7 months. Profession: software engineer from a private college. I am not from one of the IITs or NITs. My father is in Air Force and he has to look after me and my brother education and other expenses. My college fees were high, Rs 1,40,000 per year. Enjoying in college and not being serious about studies was not an option for me. To get a good job I had to work hard. Focus on my programming skills. During college placements, I got a job but the salary was not that good. So, even after joining my first job I used to study daily. Every night, after coming from the office I used to study, work on open source projects and learn new things. A few months back when I applied for a job change I got multiple offers and accepted an offer from one of the company with good work and great work culture. How do I feel? It's great! but the hunger to earn more never ends. I know a guy who earns 2,00,000 per month and he wants more, I want more. But I have realized that after some amount x(it depends on the person), salary doesn’t matter that much. It's the work that will keep you happy. If you like your work, you will grow, learn and earn. Edit: Some people are asking, how can they become good and learn, I am adding some points to answer those questions: Sourav Das My learning process involves learning by doing and I am doing what I like. I know that I am interested in computer science and I like to learn it. I didn’t take CS for a great salary, I took it because I like it. If I talk about specific topics I like to understand web backends, how DBs work, the architecture of different software, why the choice of one software is made over other, optimization, networking. Any CS degree teaches all these concepts. Try to understand basic concepts of all of these. Other than this I also like to learn the internals of programming language that I code in, contribute to open source(I don’t do it actively) and created many mini projects. Lastly, good communication is also very important. Be a good storyteller. Chethan R Nayak: Can u suggest on technologies and programming languages for freshers to start and excel ? Select a programming language and learn it very well, learn basic algo and DS and implement it in the language of your choice, start creating very simple projects in the language. This is the approach that I followed and still follow for learning new languages. As a fresher, you can choose any language. I suggest, learn Python. Python is also in high demand in industry but as a fresher focus more on learning than choosing a language. try many things(I taught myself android programming, just because I was curious). Good luck Hope it helps. 6.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 54



Education qualification - BE Electrical Engineer (June 2012) First Job after moving to US - Working at University Housing as Desk Assistant $7.25/hour - December 2012


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Fast forward 4 years - December 2016 - After few more odd jobs, internship and full time jobs - Currently working at a Silicon Valley biggie - $62.5/hour and other full time benefits Seems like a sweet deal right now! 4.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Updated Aug 8

I am currently working in a technology startup in Mumbai. I started my career in 2012 with a system integrator earning 5L Per Annum right out of college. It is difficult to meet ends with this salary when you are living in Mumbai (one of the most expensive cities in India as long as real estate is concerned) My salary has increased just over 400% over this time frame. I am currently managing Sales & Business Development for this startup and my CTC is 21L per annum Even though this hike seems incredible, your expenses keep on climbing as you tend to upgrade in terms of your ‘standard of living’. The person who used to take a local train when his package was 5L per annum now books Uber at 2x surcharge without blinking an eye. I spend most of my salary on traveling and I’ve been taking 2–3 long trips a year. I am an engineer and a MBA in General Management from one of the tier 1 institutions in India. Might sound cliched, but my view is that after a certain point your salary just becomes a number, what counts is how you plan your finances and your satisfaction quotient. 2.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 11

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1. Teacher: I started working for the NYC Dept. of Education a few months after I graduated from college. I was recruited and hired through a pilot program called the SMART (Science and Math Alternate Route to Teaching) program. 2. $35k/yr, 2005: Teachers in NYC are paid according to a 2-dimensional salary schedule. The dimensions are "steps" and "differentials". Your step is how many years you've been teaching; your differential is your educational attainment. When I started I was at the bottom bottom; 0 years teaching experience and BA only. 3. $70k/yr, 2015: I've now been teaching for 10 years and have attained a master's degree as well as additional graduate-level coursework. There have also been some across-the-board raises negotiated by the union over the past few years that have increased my salary. 4. MST: I received my teaching degree from Pace University in 2007. 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Written Jun 1, 2016

Finished my Engineering in the year 2012 in Tamilnadu. After lot of struggle for an year, somehow managed to got a job as Software Engineer in s startup in Chennai. September 2013 - 1 LPA (take home will be around 7,000 INR) April 2014 - 1.5 LPA September 2014 - 1.8 LPA


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April 2015 - 3.0 LPA September 2015 - 3.6 LPA Feb 2016 - 5 LPA (switched to new Employer and got promoted as Senior Software Developer) It increased 5 times from the start in a period of 2 years and 8 months. 1.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Bob Juch Written Oct 26

I make more in one day than I did in one month at my first job. I went to work for IBM in 1969 as a full-time regular employee at $540 a month. M y rent was $125 a month. Now everything is about 15 times as expensive. 1.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Location: Delhi-NCR, India Work Experience: 2 years 2 months Starting Salary: Rs 8000 ~ $ 120 monthly Current Salary: Rs 62,500 - $ 936 monthly Percentage Increase: Almost 800% (781.25% exact) P.S. I am a software engineer from an average college in Delhi. 5.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 10

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Occupation: DevOps Engineer First Salary: 2012 - 40k per month take home as campus offer Present Salary: 2016 - 150k per month take home M.Tech from one of the premier institute of India. Last 4 year of my work experience, I focused on learning and really worked hard. 2.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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A small brief before I come to the money part.I had joined a company in Trivandrum Technopark assuming to be a Software Developer (Apparently that is what was told to me during the interview). As soon as I joined the company, the work that was given was that of an IT helpdesk where I was supposed to take calls and resolve the IT tickets. To cut it short I was given 1.4LPA (2012)for that work. I would have continued had it been Software development but I quit the job after 4 months. I came back to Bangalore to continue my studies and completed my MCA from a good institute. I improved my basic programming skills and did a few projects during my course and now I am working for a startup as a developer and I earn 6LPA. Just a quick advice. Its very important to love what you are doing, else its gonna be a pain if you are forced to do something that you dont like. I think that the money is not really important if you do not love your job. It flows if you excel in what you love doing. 1.9k Views · View Upvotes


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24 Years Old.. Education : Bachelor Degree, Diploma In Hardware and Networking. 1st Job : Reliance BPO - Mumbai - Salary 4800 per month InHand - Year 2010 Worked for 3 Months. 2nd Job : Orient Technologies Pvt Ltd - Mumbai - Salary 8000 per month InHand Worked for around 1 Years 7 months. Got appraisal and salary increased from 8000 to 9000. 3rd Job : HCL - Mumbai - Salary 12500 per month InHand - Worked for 1 Year 4th Job : GDC Technology Limited - Mumbai - Salary - 4.1 LPA - Worked for 11 months. 5th Job : MindCarft S oftware Pvt Ltd - Mumbai - Salary - 5.4 LPA - Worked around 9 Months. 6th Job : UST Global - Gurgaon - Salary 6.6 LPA - Serving Notice Period (Completed 1 Years) 7th Job : Will join one of the Best USA based E-Commerce company by Feb 2017 with InHand Salary of 75 Thousand per month. Got another offer of 85 thousand per month on 30th December 2016, hope many more to come till completion of my notice period. I have 5+ years of experience in IT Production Support. 6.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 57

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I love to be to the point, so below are the details 1. Occupation -Sr. UI developer 2. First salary, year -INR 4lpa, 2012 3. Present salary, - INR 15lpa 4. Educational qualifications - B.Tech 503 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Forget years, I'll talk about months. Occupation - software engineer Jan 2014 - Internship - 5000/month March 2014 - 1st job - 13 000/month June 2014 - 2nd job - 35000/month Got fired in July August 2014 - 3rd job - 42000/month April 2015 - salary increased to 47500/month August 2015 - 4th job - 90,000/month and stocks April 2016 - same job, salary increased by 45% amounting to 1,25,000/month Freelance not included - never counted. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Growth - 1800% in 2 years. I agree I shouldn't be changing so frequently but I felt my salary hike never matched my growth. I'm currently working at one of top 50 startups in the world according to CNBC along with ex Google and ex Facebook employees. Quora is our client ;) 2.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19



Background: Ordinary btech with ordinary technical skills. But I am really good at learning advance technologies and extremely competitive while working, with aggressive touch) Cracked a blue chip company, but my principal forgot to send my details to Delhi HQ so rejected by EOD (Btw this interview happend at night 2 o clock when the temperature is 15 degrees). 1. Worked for a start-up @10k per month. Grabbed lot of attention from management, by 6th month I'm withdrawing an amount of 20k plus bonus). This was in 2012 - 2013. 2. Again my bad luck said “hello”! On Dec 2013 project was revoked due to a double agent inside. Who took the project to a new company. BTW by then I was withdrawing 30k. 3. This is t he best part. Another startup hired me showing a bright future by 5k per month. Stupid me! After trusting them I was sailing in sinking ship like Jack sparrow. After one and half year my salary was 14k plus tantrums of “seniors”. After a long and meaningless days when I got chance in a really big product company, these guys left me without papers. Again back to square one. Now the time is 2015 q4. I remember, All these days I was eating 3 idlies on morning, 1 cup rice for each session. These routine went for complete 14 months. Addition to these attending calls from bank to pay my Edu loan. 4. By starting of 2015 q4 my sal was 5lacs plus allowance. Was withdrawing 50k. 5. Again switched on 2016 to a company which is in fortune 15 with s alary of almost 15 lacs with a really good position and on one of the best advance technologies. These figures are not any fancy. But I just wrote it for people who lost all hope in one of the above situations. There is indeed a ray of hope but you must work to be accepted on that day. 9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 52



1. Occupation: Sold ebooks on ebay when I was 17 years old in year 2007. 2. First salary, year: Rs. 500 per month (2007) 3. Present salary, year : Rs. 50 Lakhs per year (2016). Built my book publishing business. 4. Educational qualifications: MBA dropout in the 4th sem 14.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 110


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Age : 32 years 1. Merchant Navy Officer https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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2. 2006 First salary as D eck cadet 8000 INR per month back then 3. 2017 Present salary (12,00,000INR 12 lakh)per month Captain, Gas tanker. 4. BSc Nautical Science an increase of 15000% P.S - I am a self made man who was not born with a silver spoon. Studied on education loan back then and now have more than 36 crores of property and assets. 4.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 24



Occupation: Software Engineer II (current) 2013 - First job at a start up, 9 Lacs/annum 2014 - Start up didn't take off, joined a famous database systems company at 11 Lacs/annum 2015 - Joined a very well respected technology giant at a fixed package of 24 Lacs/annum + 20 Lacs in shares vested over 5 years + 4 lacs performance bonus) 3.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1st Job-350 Rupees 1991 Started as a UPSC CSE coaching teacher in patna, was preparing for UPSC and alongside taught aspirants in a small coaching institute. 1993 2nd Job-1750 Rupees ACIO 2 in IB@MHA Not able to clear mains in my first attempt but simultaneously applied for IB ACIO 2 exam. I was able to clear it and my first posting was in Jammu and Kashmir. This was the time when kashmir valley was reeling under militancy. The job provided the adventure I was looking for my whole life. Now earning 80000 Rs. (7th Cpc)+30000 rent from two flats that I have acquired through bank loans. Present Job SP in CBI. Educational Qualification- BCom(hon) from an ordinary college in patna.I may not have mind blowing package like many youngsters here but it is sufficient for me and my family. Although hectic but I am really satisfied with my job as it has given me several opportunity to make my mark. I was part of several team which caught several SIMI terrorist and was also involved in the operation to break the back of naxalites in Chattisgarh. 6.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 55

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44.44% increase. First Job started in April 2016 at Rs. 9 lacs per year. Currently accepted another offer to switch from February 2017 at Rs. 13 lacs per year. Going anonymous since I am yet to leave the current organisation. Educational qualifications: https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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B.Tech in Electrical Engineering (2010–14) MBA in Marketing (2014–16) Job role : Deputy Manager (Marketing) in current as well as next company. 5.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 19



Nov. 2013 - Trainee (Marketing) :- Salary 5300-/ Nov. 2013- Employee Converted as a Bidding Analyst :- Salary 15,000-/ Nov. 2014- Marketing Associate:- Salary 22,500-/ Nov. 2015- Business Development Executive:- Salary 27,500-/ April, 2016- Lead Sales:- Salary 40,000-/ (Current CTC) I have done B-Tech in CSE and didn’t get job from campus placements (Due to nontechnical). After 2 years of my degree I got my first job in MNC as a marketing trainee. After that within 6 months I converted as a employee and then every year I got promotions and salary hike. In 2016 I resigned from that organisation and shake hand with a new MNC as a Lead Sales. 2.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 11

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I started my career as a Software Engineer when I was 14 years old making $40,000 AU per year. At 16 I was earning $65,000 AU and at 18 I was earning $95,000 AU. Fast forward to 20, I moved to the United States from Australia and earned $165,000 USD / year as the Chief Architect at a startup. I’m currently 22 years old and running my own company as the Chief Technology Officer. My personal earnings this year will be around $400,000 USD. I’m not paid a salary anymore. I have no educational qualifications, other than studying at an Australian University for 8 months prior to dropping out (from 17 to 18 years old). 481 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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First Job: Technical Support in a ITES company Year: 2004 February Salary: 8000 INR per month (CTC: 1 lakh+ something. can’t remember the exact amount) Current job: Business Analyst in a major IT consulting company Year: 2016 July Salary: 75000 INR per month (CTC: 11 lakhs+) 1.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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312% 1. Occupation: Engineer working in the field of Electrical Power System 2. First salary, year: 20k INR per month in year 2012 July https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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3. Present salary, year: 62.5k INR per month present 2016 November 4. Educational qualifications: Masters of Engineering in Electrical Power System I would like to add here that after pursuing Masters in Engineering chances of your getting job in technical field decreases (particularly talking about India as general and Gujarat as specific), but you can opt for teaching in engineering colleges where starting salaries are around 35k INR. But growth in teaching field is flat while in industrial job you get good hikes and if you switch at right times than growth is even more. 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Many thanks for asking this question. I always wanted to write about my journey so far and that opportunity you gave me today. Before getting started I would like to tell what I am today. Year: 2016, currently working as Lead - Engineering at one of the reputed company. Education: B. Com with computer Application Now let's get started from the beginning. Year: 2007, Nagpur Job: started working in book store. I was pursuing studies at the same time. Salary: Rs 600 INR PM Year: 2008, Nagpur Job: Same as above Salary: Rs 700 INR Year: 2009, Nagpur Job: Printing machine operator Salary: Rs 900 INR PM Till now, I never had thought that I will make my carrier in software engineering. I always thought of being an accountant. Rs 5000 INR was my dream salary. Then during final year of graduation something happened and that changed my life. I started looking for something which can give some respectful job. I came to know about HTML/CSS. Learned it during final year with account and other commerce subjects. Walked miles with resume in hand and knocked every company door but they turned me down. When I was about go back and start doing same, one company called me. A very small company in a 1BHK flat with 3 employees and I was the fourth one. Year: 2010, Nagpur Job: Associate Web Developer Salary: Rs 2500 INR PM This was the new inning of life and since then I never looked back. Year: 2011, Nagpur Job: Web Developer Salary: Rs 3500 PM Untill this time I had learned PHP Frameworks and JavaScript by self learning. I had to prove myself that being commerce graduate I am good at Logic and coding. Year: 2012, I quit current job and switched to new company https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Job: Software Engineer Salary: Rs 7000 INR PM. Year: 2013, Pune. One more job change back to back. I got selected by one startup and they gave more than what I asked for. So far I was good at programming and self learning attitude was keeping me ahead of all. My interview went very well and interviewers were highly impressed. I tried not to go Pune and gave them various reasons but then they made me an offer which I couldn't refuse. Job: Software Engineer Salary: Rs 25k INR PM 25k salary was far more than what I dreamed 3 years back. My parents were very happy and proud. I was a star for my relatives since nobody so far had reached to this much. 25k salary per month was the 50% of total yearly income of my father. I can't forget their faces when I told them about my salary. Year: 2014, Pune That Startup is now a 80 plus employee company with handful turnover. My yearly appraisal gave me 40% mouthful hike in salary. I was on seventh sky. Got promoted too! Job: Senior Software Engineer Salary: Rs 35k INR PM Year: 2015, Pune Job: Senior Software Engineer. Same company Salary: Rs 45k INR Now here comes the one more turn in my life when unexpected happened. Got a call from same city where I started. Yes, Nagpur it is! They offered me package of 10 LPA. Yes, you got it right. Near about Rs 75k INR per month after deducting all the taxes and PF. I can't tell how proud I feel when I see my salary slip. I still have those bank deposit slips when I used to get 1500. Those bank slips reminds from where I came and never let me forget my roots. I am so glad that I took decision to learn something different, which doesn't come under my curriculum. I decided to break the rule that only engineering student can become an engineer. I am a B. Com. Graduate and I proudly say this when someone asks me about my education. Year: 2016, Nagpur Job: Lead - Engineering Salary: Rs 75k INR PM Period. 1.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 32



Occupation: Quality Assurance Engineer Occupation: Quality First Salary: 6k Salary: 6k PM, 2013 Present Salary: 5.7 Salary: 5.7 LPA, 2016 Education Qualification: Bachelors Qualification: Bachelors of Engineering (Information Technology), Batch 2008–2012 First Job: Worked as an Intern for 3 Months earning 6k pm. Second Job: Joined as a Trainee with 2.2 lpa in May 2013. Salary was 3.6LPA when moved out for my 2nd jump. https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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Third Job: Joined with a package of 5.25 lpa in Dec 2015 and currently getting around 5.7 lpa after getting a 10% hike recently. 5.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 30


Rishabh Goyal, Goyal, studied at Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (2017) Updated Jan 18

Hi I am going to tell you my story.I am final year student of engineering from NIT JAIPUR.Our placement season started on 26 July.I got rejected in first four companies(d e Shaw,arcesium,Amazon,Walmart) Shaw,arcesium,Amazon,Walmart) in interviews. I got rejection after hr round in Walmart.This was a crucial period for me. After getting rejected in Walmart(it was my dream company) I was depressed so much that I used to check my mail in mornings after waking up to see whether was there any mail from walmart.I didn't want to sit in companies any more.I tried to convenience and tell myself that it is okay to get rejected but this was not going to helping me.I went through almost 20 companies and as ususal got rejected mostly after hr because I was very much frustrated and nervous and one reason was that I didn't wanted to be placed in those companies.Then I sat in Infosys and got selected in Infosys with package of 3.25 lpa (Infosys was bonus company and I appeared for this to boost up my confidence). After this I again got rejected by some companies.After all this I realised that now I should take any company.Now I got a chances to sit for Samsung.There was no interview round.If you have cleared all the test cases of coding question you will be selected.I cleared 49 test cases out of 50 and got rejected.(this was another sad moment for me). In November I got selected in two companies( The procedure of these two companies was in parallel so I had a chance of getting selected in two).The package was 6.5 lpa. Recently I got selected in Qualcomm.Thank you so much qualcomm for giving me opportunity. PS : I was not interested in publishing my story on social media or any where else but one day someone told me that it could inspire anyone so I have written this.If you gets inspired it would be great and make this post worthwhile. Edit 1: Thank you kartik Kampasi for asking to share it. 8.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 48



I’ll share my father’s experience. He’s just a 10th Pass. 1980 - My father was a janitor. He used to get 500 INR as salary per month. Refused to study due to poor financial conditions of our home back then. 1985 - My father cleared interview rounds by XYZ Port Trust (Name withheld for various reasons). Salary - 1000 INR per month 1990 - Upgrade from Janitor to Vessel driver Level 1. Salary - 1500 INR per month 1995 - Already married with a son of 1 year age. Upgrade from Vessel Driver Level 1 to Level 2 Salary - 2000 INR per month 2000 - Major Upgrade from Vessel Driver to Engineer In Charge. Salary - 10000 INR per month 2006 - Stable post - Experience increased - 6th Pay Scale Commission - Salary 20000INR per month 2010 - Stable post - Increased charge from 1 vessel to 2 vessels - Salary - 40000 INR per month. 2016 - Stable post - Salary 50000INR per month. 2.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 16



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H ow ow m uc uc h has your sal ar ar y i nc ncr ea eased fr om om your fi rs rst j ob ob to today ? - Quor a Anonymous Written Oct 20, 2015

Occupation - Software Developer First salary, July 2011 - 3.5 LPA Present salary, Aug 2015 - 30 LPA Educational qualifications - BE Computer Science (small town private college) I never learned things to earn money, which is probably the biggest reason behind my current earnings. I do the same today, learning, because I like it, not for making money. 5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 12



Started with an Software Engineering job in Mumbai(my hometown) in 2009, since it was the slowdown period our packages were trimmed down to 2lks per annum. So that was around 13k in hand per month. Fast forward to an MBA from a decent college. Got placed in a IT again. Started with 10.9lks 10. 9lks in 2014 and am drawing 15.6Lks per annum . Thats nearly 1 lk in hand every month. With additional bonuses every quarter. 29, Male single and own a house so prettymuch half of it goes towards EMI’s. 3.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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2012 Jan: Fresher - Sys admin - started my career with 1.5L per annum in a leading service based company (including all benefits) Left the company with 2.3L 2013 Aug: Joined a US product based company - Operations Engineer - as a contractor with 3.5L per annum, took a risk, colleagues/friends scolded me, paid the previous software giant 50K as I broke the bond, meh. 2014 July: Became permanent in the same company salary raised to 6.6L per annum Left the company with 7.4L CTC and 2L per annum as allowances 2015 Sept: Joined a US based tech startup - DevOps - 11.25L per annum and 3L (stocks) As of 2016 Oct Still working there with 12.25L per annum and 3.5L (stocks) So in ~5 years from 1.5L to 15L-16L per annum. For the sake of numbers: 900% increase My education background: 2004: 10th - state board - 93% 2006: 12th - state board - 73% 2011: BCA - no cares about that college - 70% If you have some time free, go on: Yes, I have 2 years of gap after my higher secondary I dropped out the course which I was told to take as I was not interested in that. Next year I went to a different place worked in some BPOs for some months while doing my college, dropped again https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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because of some family issues. Went to a different university joined BCA in one of the affiliated college , after a week university asked me to leave as I didn't have some sort of NOC and the whole syllabus was different between the universities. 2008 Sept: Joined some xyz college, didn't even know it existed before that and different university though, started from the scratch, my juniors in school were my seniors in college, lol. And I made some good friends. 2011 Feb: Came to know about an off campus drive. Since the drive was for BSc/BCA grads and it was off campus drive around 17 colleges participated (1500 students) I thought around 150 ppl will be taken in, as the company is known for that. But sadly only 6 were selected for the further rounds. Out of which only 2 were given offer letter. I was one among the 2, big relief. I couldn’t sleep for couple of days, was overjoyed. Informed my mom she was very happy and my friends too. I thanked my friend who got me the Reliance internet dongle which helped me to prepare for the tests the night before the drive and my grandpa who got me a laptop. And my other friend who used to wake me up everyday in the morning for college during the final year as I was in sort of mansion, 22 people in one floor (3BHK, rent 1K per month per person), mostly drunkards shouting or whining never let me sleep on time and I admit I am not a morning person too. Why I went there in first place? I was asked to leave my house (A) when I was in 11 std, which I gladly accepted and left. Stayed in a very close relative’s place(B), I left after a year due to some issues which didn't include me and dropped out of the college as I said I didn't like the course either. Stayed in another relative’s place (C) kinda close, I was asked to leave after 1.5 years, gladly accepted it and dropped out again. Went back to place B as A screwed my life for 12 years (7 to 18), if it is not for my mom and friends I might have turned out to be a drug addict or something, lol, as I had the chances. Well after 1.5 years (B) asked me to leave the house in the middle of night. This time I was crying, didn't accept it gladly. I went to another relative’s place (D) close though, if you are reading this at this point you might think I am sort of an idiot or a weirdo, thats fine. After a month I told (D) that I don’t want to stay in anyone’s place thats where I went to that shady mansion. I wasn’t from a big city otherwise I would have gone to a PG. Well I answered my question. Now after all the years I am typing this from place (A) issues are sorted out now but I still get nightmares and headaches. Mostly me beating the shit out him (step-father), may be its his nightmare I get it. Lol. I never used to think about my past mostly unless I try to remember my dad once in a while, who passed away when I was 1.1 years old in an accident. By creating a mental image of him with a very few pictures that I have seen. And how different my life would have been, my mom’s life too. How different I would have been if I was shown the love and the care which I deserved, at least in my childhood. I was happy till 6, lived with my grandpa, grandma, mom and B, D and one more aunt. Okay so how bad he was? There were many incidents in those 12 years, just remembered one in the early ages. I was around 8. One day my step father took me to a shop where they make bamboo furnitures after my school and asked me to choose a cane I had no idea why. Once I did choose he said “its for you”. Came home, went to his room, doors locked, I got beaten the shit out of me that day, that was my first time. So made a lot of noise and more the noise I made the more vigorous it was. I heard my mom banging the door from outside and poor lady fainted on the door as she was pregnant 7–8 months, carrying my step-brother who is a nice guy, nothing like him. I didn’t go to school the next day my back my legs my arms were swollen and had red strips how can I go to school, that was his problem. It wasn't the 1st incident though as the first incident happened on the fourth day I met him when I was 7. But this one was huge I couldn’t forget. After that I got used to that, wanted to leave the house when I was 9, 10,11..so on..16,17 and boom it happened. Now I have visited place (B) few times I and talk to them. C is fine, I talk to them too. D had no issues. I started talking back to him few years before as my mom has to stay with him, she left him thrice though. But now after all these years suddenly he turned https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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to be a normal person, my mom is finally happy, I have 2 loving brothers. And I am more like the head of the family and I pay the EMI of the house where everyone stays bought it with the help of (D). I visit my home once in a while like during holidays but I don’t feel home enough and I don’t share anything with him. He is just a person to me its fine if he doesn't exist I don’t have hatred on him nor he does on me now. Moral: So it doesn’t matter me how much my salary increased at the end of the day, the struggle I have to go through to get it, the sleepless nights, doesn’t matter, I mean no purpose. I missed being with my family esp with my dad. I am 28 years old now still can’t get over the fact that, unconsciously though, that I was abused as I get nightmares once in a while. I have no passion on anything I couldn’t find anything that interests me as most the days went on planning survival tactics. My answer is not so relevant to the topic we are discussing here, it belongs to ‘what we Indians collectively do wrong on Quora’. Lol. Whining. I haven’t opened in years, like a decade may be thats why I started off with some content and went on a different track. Next year I am getting married to my girl friend one thing for sure I will be a good husband and the best dad. 14.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 68



2013:-joined a startup in a different city than mine at 15000 pm salary(worked for 8 months) 2014:- joined a middle scale company with 2 lack per annum with 2 years bond. 2015:-got appraisal with salary of 3 lack per annum but inhand was 15000 and other amount is given after the end of 2 years. (worked for 2 years) 2016 :-Joined a MNC with a package of 6.8 lack per annum(working here at present ….4 months have been completed) 2.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 12

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Going Anonymous For Obvious Reasons! Sharing Salary Details Is A Security Risk. 1. Occupation: When i started i was a Service Engineer(Wrong Decision, Being vulnerable during my early years was a good learning how ever my parents had no issue with it), Now i work as a Security Engineer 2. First salary, year : 9 0000 PA, 2010 3. Present salary: year 15LPA, 2015 4. Educational qualifications: BE, ECE I worked as a Service Engineer for 1.5 years without a question, my salary increased to 12000PM in 8 months and then it was around 15K PM till the time i left. Things were ok, i worked and had fun i have no regret now the Job taught me a lot of stuff about company culture, politics, etc… but the job was monotonous and i got bored, i had a lot of free time and i started learning looked at different technology and liked Cyber Security. I tried for couple of months and landed a job in a startup where i got decent salary which was actually less than the last drawn salary of my previous company it was 10K PM i did not have any issues as i wanted to learn irrespective of the salary. I worked my ass of for 4 years and learnt a lot of stuff and also failed and learnt what i actually liked and what are my weaknesses. I moved to my current company an year back it was a good opportunity where i am part of a new team in India and we are building it so it can be considered as a startup but not technically a startup. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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I am willfully going to Anonymous for this. Now lets start with my answer. I started my career in 2009, because of the recession in IT sector at that time, I didn’t get any chance to participate in on-campus hiring. Me and all my friends worried about future. During my six month training in MCA, I deliver some good project in a private company. My instructor was impressed and referred me one of the service based company (Actually I can work in current company as well but scope of growth was less so he referred me other), I interviewed there and get selected, but I only get 2500/- as per month salary. I was more than happy because I got the job. I worked hard and make my position in company in sort period,I usually got increment more then my expectation,I continue get high increment sometime in every six months. On other side I keep improving my knowledge and made my self competitive to market, I changed the job and find better opportunity and salary ( Earlier getting better salary give me happiness and satisfaction but later on I realize, only money is not everything and I start thinking about work quality, life happiness and satisfaction ). Right now I am getting 24 Lac rupees of package, “all fixed” :P and I have offer in hand of 36 Lac rupees “again all fixed” :). As I said earlier, Money is not everything for me now, I might not join there. But If I join, my increment during 7 year will be 12000%. I never though I will get this much in 7 year of span, but now I really don’t care. 5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 38



Joined IBM through campus recruitment in 2010. Salary was claimed to be 27k per month (3.25 lpa). Actual salary was 19k. Competency assignment was done randomly and I got mainframes which I have zero interest in. Worked for a year and quit to do MTech in IIT. Didn’t sit for campus recruitments as my previous experience made me tired of the corporate life. Joined a Government job and gets around 56k per month. ~300% increase in salary infinite% increase in job satisfaction and contribution to society. 13.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 101

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My graph is, 1. Occupation : Tech Lead 2. First salary, year - Rs.30000( per annum ) and the year was 2009 3. Present salary, year - Rs.13.2 lakhs ( per annum ), 2016 4. Educational qualifications - > MCA After completing MCA, i didn’t want to waste years. So, immediately joined a small concern as an ordinary office boy with the salary of Rs.2500 per month. Then entered into IT after 6 months of struggle. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Yes, got a job in a start up company with the salary of Rs.4000 per month. Left the company after 2 years. My salary was increased to Rs.10,500/- in that 2 years. Again joined another start up company for the salary of Rs.12,500/Life took me to Bangalore. Joined a company as a Senior Software Engineer with 3 years of experience in IT. The CTC was Rs.4.25 Lakhs. Spent another 3 years in the same company and my CTC increased to Rs.7 Lakhs. This is my fourth company. Joined 6 months back for the salary of Rs.12.65 Lakhs per annum and i got 5% hike also. My current salary is Rs.13.2 Lakhs per annum. My life is changed from an ordinary office b oy to Tech Lead, and from Rs.30,000 to Rs.13 Lakhs in the span of 7 years. 13.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 275

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9 times in 12 years 1. Occupation : Software Engineer (Desi gnation doesn’t matter) 2. First Salary, Year : 27000/= Per month 2004 3. Present salary, Year : 160000/= Per month 2016 On CTC basis it is 9 times 4. Education Qualification : Engineer from One of the premier college Journey has been up and down, Including some bad decisions, some bad company, Job loss. In financial turmoil in 2008–2009, Lost Job, had 0 Saving, expecting first kid, Personal problems, and so on. However by god grace everything I was able to build on from scratch, and Luckily Now I have sufficient savings to not to worry about job for at least one year. 17.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 35

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RS Written Oct 2

In 2001, I started job for just Rs. 2500 as tele calling executive. However, I did that just for a month. After that, I completed graduation in 2002 and joined a company where my salary was 3k as customer support executive. I left that too just after a month. Then I joined one company for Rs. 1500 but left after 15 days. After few months I joined another job for 2k and left that after a month. Then I joined one school as part time admin executive & my salary was Rs. 1500. I was asked to leave after a month, lol :). Then finally I got a good job in 2006 as academic counselor. It was part time initially and my salary was Rs. 2500. Then after six months I became full time employee and my salary increased by Rs. 5000. I worked with same salary for 2 years. Then got married in 2008 and moved to my husband’s city so left that job. Then just after 4 months I got separated from my husband and applied for divorce. After separation I started another job as educational counselor in 2009 for 7k. Then got better offer for 12.5 k as senior academic counselor after 6 months which I accepted but I was asked to leave after 3 months. I got depressed and did not work for 2.5 years. In starting of 2013, I started working at MNC BPO (US process) as process associate and my starting salary was just 12k. I negotiated in interview that 12k is very less for a night shift. They convinced me if my performance is good, after 3 months they will increase it by 16 k and that happened. I joined in January, and in May my salary was increased by 16k. Then every year between May to August I get 2 to 4 k increment since last 3 years. Today, in October 2016, my Basic salary is around 25 k and with all allowances and incentives, I make 30 to 32 k monthly. I am now looking for better opportunity in day shift. So, in 2001, I started my first job with 2.5k and in 2013, I started this job with just 12k salary but I earn 30k monthly now in 2016. I am not promoted at managerial level though. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Occupation: Software First Salary: 7.2K/month in 2008 (8.7k/month in 2010) Present Salary: 1 lac/month in 2016 (3rd company) Education: B-tech from a bottom level college No extra course, No certification 1.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 11


Kartik Kampasi, worked at Students Updated Fri

A JOBLESS MAN APPLIED FOR THE POSITION OF 'OFFICE BOY' AT MICROSOFT A jobless man applied for the position of 'office boy' at Microsoft. The HR manager interviewed him, then gave him a test: clean the floor. The man passed the test with flying colors. "You are hired," HR manager informed the applicant, "give me your e-mail address, and I'll send you the application for employment, as well as the date you should report for work. The man replied " I don't have a computer, or an email!" "I'm sorry," said the HR manager. "If you don't have an email, that means you do not exist. And we cannot hire persons who do not exist." The man was very disappointed. He didn't know what to do. He only had $10 with him. Once that is spent, he won't have any money to buy any foo d. He went to the supermarket and bought a crate of tomatoes with his $10. He went from door to door and sold the tomatoes in less than two hours. He doubled his money. He repeated the operation three times, and returned home with $60. He realized that he can survive this way. He started to go everyday earlier, and return late. He doubled or tripled his money every day. Soon, he bought a cart, then a truck. In a very short time, he had his own fleet of delivery vehicles. Five years later, the man became one of the biggest food retailers in the U. S. He started to plan his family's future, and decided to have a life insurance. He called an insurance broker, and chose a protection plan. At the end of the conversation, the broker asked him for his email address. The man replied: ' I don't have an email.' The broker was dumbfounded. "You don't have an email, and yet have succeeded in building an empire. Can you imagine what you could have been if you had an email?," he exclaimed. The man thought for a while, and replied, "an office boy at Microsoft!" If you just lost your Job or Just failed an Interview Don't worry be Optimistic..... Good days are on the way and something better is reserved for you. All you have to do is Explore, Innovate and Explore !!! https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Edit1:Quora Messaged me 5,000+ people were sent your answer in the Quora Digest Thanks Everyone for sharing my answer. Edit2:Quora Messaged me 10,000+ people were sent your answer in the Quora Digest Thanks Everyone for sharing my answer. 5.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 114


Anonymous Written Sat

40,000% times (from 1998 - 2016) 1. Occupation : IT Support 2. First salary, year : 1998 1300 INR /20 USD/13 GBP per month as a sales boy at Carpet shop, Delhi 3. Present salary, year: 2016 5,25,000 INR/ 8000 USD / 5250 GBP per month , IT specialist, London 4. Educational qualifications: 12th Failed, MCP, ITIL Currently in India year 2017, unemployed, income from interest 20000 INR / 307 USD/ 200GBP per month Destiny will bring where you belong, but only hard/smart work can take you to your goal. 4.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 20

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Ankit Verma, studied at Dayanand Public School, Shimla Written Aug 2

1986 Started working in chandigarh at INR 170 1990 Joined army canteen (civilian accountant) salary INR 400 Moved back to shimla in 1992 1992 Joined LIC of india as an agent + opened a cloth shop INR 3000 1996 clothing business went into losses INR 1000 1997 Bought Maruti Omni hired a driver and started taxi business INR 5000 1998 Bought Maruti 800 for taxi purpose INR 7000 2004 Business went into loss sold Omni and started LIC work seriously INR 30k 2008 One of the best agents of Himachal Pradesh INR 80k 2010 Cleared MDRT INR 1lac 2011 Started Clothing business again + LIC 1.5 lac 2014 Started Hostel at home along with lic and cloth trading INR 1.8 Lac Today he's still earning around this per month approximately.This was about my Dad :) 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 10

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Ankush Kocher , works at Oodles Technologies Written Dec 28

Hi, Very Nice Thread But i have observed that salary of first job is very low many time < 10000. For me First salary 7000 join IT company Aug 2014 as ASSISTANT JAVA DEVELOPER. After 3 months its was 2 LPA in same company as JAVA DEVELOPER. After 2 year i switch to other company in Gurgaon. Currently 2.6 years of exp and current salary 6 lpa 4.1k Views · View Upvotes · Not for Reproduction Upvote 19

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Updated Aug 5

Occupation - Software Engineer First salary 6.2 lpa July 2014 First hike 7.2 lpa Jan 2015 Next hike 7.8 lpa Jan 2016 Switched company Current 12.5 lpa Fixed ( with bonus and other perks CTC 16 LPA) July 2016 Total hike 101% in 2 years Qualification :- B.tech TIER 1 Engineering college Edit :- Have 2 offers (one 18 LPA from startup) but decided to go with the previous one because of location of my choice , benefits and brand name . 4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 15

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I come from a tier 2 engineering college. I had big dreams of a huge pay check to fulfil all my mum’s wishes plus I am a shopaholic from a middle class family ;) First salary: 12k/month Worked harder, landed with a government job Salary: 35k/month But higher ambitions require more hard work, studied and made myself better with each day for 6 months. Salary now: 1.4 lakh/month Work hard, always the mantra. :) 5.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 49

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First job from July 2015 Designation Software Engineer Per month salary(July-March) 28570 INR 9.5% hike(default) from April 2016 Per month salary (April-current) 30570 INR Applied to my new employer in mid June 2016. Got an offer this week joining in September. Expected per month salary(September) 72000+ INR. 1.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Shikhar Srivastava, Salaries are just a number Written May 22, 2016

Me, 1st job, 20103 to 2015 CTC - 3.25 lpa


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Now. Since November 2015 to present CTC : 12 lpa Qualifications : Masters In Computer Science Cheers :) 512 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I am a software engineer at one of the biggest product based companies. I currently work at their Hyderabad office in India. I am an Electronics and Communication Engineer from one of the top NITs. I graduated in 2011. All figures in INR. Began working July 2011. First salary - 28k (CTC - 4.2 lpa) Changed jobs in Dec 2013. Salary - 56k (CTC - 10.65 lpa) Changed jobs in Jan 2016 Salary - 110k (CTC + stocks - 22.5 lpa) 4.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 27

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I joined one of the service based MNC like TCS and Infosys in the year 2014 Oct as fresher. My starting package was 3.15 lpa. I was under training for first 3 months and then next 9 months was on Bench (Honeymoon period). So after 1 year my package was 3.45 lpa So after 1 completed year I was into automation testing project without knowing single bit of selenium. I learnt every bit of selenium by own as I knew Java. I started grabbing everything which was thrown at me. After 2 years my package was 3.62 lpa. So almost 1 year 3 months into same team with 2 different project under same client. It was good learning experience in terms of technology and communication. Now I got offers from 3 product based companies, highest package out of which is 7.52 lpa. I would be joining that company in next week. Keep improving your skills, and sell your skills for better price. :P 5.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 122

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Going anonymous for obvious reasons.


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Last Education - MBA (premier institute in India). Work: Financial services (no significant job changes). Location: Major city in India. 2009 (year of MBA completion) - INR 13L. 2016 - INR 61L (plus approx 5L from interest on liquid savings) so total INR 66L. Age: very early thirties 5.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 51



Completed Engineering in 2012 Was searching job in chennai and as well as banagalore but couldn't get any! Got a job which is completely irrelevant to my studies with a salary of 12,000 in Feb 2013 With an increment of about 3,000 in July 2013 total 15,000. With a promotion in 2014 October my salary was rais ed by 10,000 so totally 25,000. Resigned my job in July 2015 and started working as freelancer charging 3 lakhs per project and successfully doing it till date. Completed 4 projects in 2016 but din receive the payment fully because of demonization but got about 9 lakhs in 2016! It's totally about 300% increase from my first job! 2.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 16

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Started from a notary helper, now a software professional from an elite college in India. 1st salary 2008: 35rs(less then $1) per day. Around 1000rs($15) per month 2nd salary 2014: 51k(around $1000) per month. 3rd salary 2016: 2.1L(around $3200) per month. I worked so hard in this period that you could even imagine. And most interesting thing is hours spend in the work is same for all the time. Thanks! 1.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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275% Qualifications : B. Tech (CSE) First job : Joined as associate programmer in 2013. Salary : 3.2 LPA First hike in same organization 25% - salary 4 LPA Second hike in same organization 36%- salary 5.4 LPA Second Job : Changed the organization with 48% hike. Joined as software engineer. Salary 8 LPA


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Third JOB (current) : Changed the organization with 50% hike. Salary 12 LPA 10.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 30



6K to 25 LPA I didn't get placement at first place and finally settled with a start up in 2008 during a huge recession. Started with 6K/month First appraisal 12200/month Second appraisal 17500/month Only different thing there in my career was, I get the opportunity to work on something very unique at that time. NLP (natural language processing)/ Machine learning/Data science etc. And nobody knew wat the heck it is. So I earned 1 7500/month till 3 years in my career whereas most of my friends were earning like 40K. I was fed up and wanted to go into teaching and also tried moving to java technology that was well known industry technology. After 3 years, I got first interview opportunity to build a search engine with a well known company and I got 6 LPA pkg. After that my career growth was good, I learned the value of unique and special skills. I used it as my USP, changed 3 companies after that. Got offers from foreign companies as well. Started earning from freelance work as well. During the course of last 4-5 years, I have received around 25-30 job offers. I can easily switch a job as and when I want and can ask for even 40 LPA. But now money is not that important factor to me. I do like learning, still studying from distance-universities, or on-line courses. I do spend a lot of time in on-line competitions. and writing research papers. Overall I keep myself motivated and pose challenges for myself, as I have never got any mentor and manger or any formal training on any of the technology I am working on. So its important to love what I do and always having some targets to achieve. 11.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 97



First salary - 300/month ( internship post MBBS) Current salary - 7–8,L / month (Ophthalmologist) That is the gross income. Take home amount is around 2.5–3L / month Job ( Eye Surgeon) private practice Current age 57 To get here i ve had to sacrifice family life social life so i can let my kids have what I could not have. P.S:- Being a doctor sucks!! In india. 3.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 33

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1000% (from 2013 - 2016) https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Occupation :- SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) -> Working on Manual and Automation Testing. 1. First Salary - 7.5k INR per month in 2013 2. Present Salary - 75k INR per month in 2016 3. Qualification - B.Tech. (CSE) I have done my b.tech. in 2013 from a private college of UPTU and start my first job working under a freelancer who paid me 7.5k per month. I worked hard and switched to another company and got 20k per month. I was from manual testing profile so I was aware that I could not get much salary so I studied a lot and switched my profile from Manual to Automation. Got two hike A. 35k and B. 45k in the same company. Now changed my job and got 75 k per month. Still working hard to keep it up. 4.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 23



I read this question several times. Finally, I decided to answer. So Here we Go 1-First salary-1275rs per month in 2010,when I was doing B Sc 2- Second salary- 2,70,000 pa after completion of MBA in 2013 3- Third salary-3,60,000 pa in 2013(Changed job) 4-Present salary-6,50,000 pa in 2016(Got promotion in previous job and changed job) Educational qualifications 10th-Failed, tried and again failed three time, and could qualified in 4th attempts means ( I was in my 10th class for back to back 4 years) 12th-cleared in first attempt BSc-Again failed twice and completed in 5th years instead of three MBA- Cleared without backlogs 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 27



Joined as a fresher (BE Graduate) in a mid sized company (~1000 employees) for a salary of 2.5 lakhs INR in 2013. Was given training on Sql and Java for 3 months. Wasn't in the good books of the training manager (God knows why he had some grudge on a few reportees). Was put into an internal project as Quality Analyst and worked for 2.6 years getting a cummilative hikes of 45,000 INR for the year 2014 and 2015. Came 2016 and tried in a lot of service based companies and could get a maximum of 3.8 lakhs LPA INR owing to my poor existing salary (2.95 LPA). Got into a product based company for 7.5 LPA and within few months got a hike of 2 LPA. So 2.5 LPA to 2.95 LPA in 2.6 years and 2.95 to 9.5 LPA in 7 months :D. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Anonymous Written Jan 6, 2016

Started career with Infosys in 2006 with package of 2.75L per annum Quitted Infy in 2010 (package was 5L at that time) & Joined TCS for 7.5L per annum Quitted TCS in 2015 (package was 10L at that time) & joined Deloitte Consulting for 15L per annum Location is Hyd for all the jobs. Got an offer for 20L in Bangalore. But preferred Hyd for obvious reasons of staying with family & low cost of living. PS : Only regret is couldn't take gratuity in any of the companies. Need to see if I can in my 3rd company :) PPS : Tip for salaried folks: Many employees withdraw their PF upon quitting a company. My suggesti on is to t ransfer your PF to your new company. 791 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Profession : Software Developer Education : NO BSC / NO BTECH / NO BE / NO MBA Job 1 August 2011 : 8,000 / Month December 2011 : 12,000 / Month July 2012 : 20,000 / Month Job 2 May 2013 : 30,000 / Month Job 3 December 2013 : 40,000 / Month March 2014 : 45,000 / Month Job 3 October 2014 : 70,000 / Month Current : Appraisal Review Pending

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I joined a Business Analytics Firm last year(2015). 1st Salary - Rs. 25000 pm Started writing ebooks on Kindle Direct Publication on Business Analytics Extra income - 40000–50000 pm + 40000 from job (after 1st hike) = 80k-90k pm I have 4 ebooks under my name on Amazon 1. 100 questions to learn R in 6 hours 2. 112 questions to crack business analyst interview using SQL 3. 100 Questions to crack business analyst interview


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4. How to start a career in data science If you have any question on how start a career in data science or how to earn from kindle. Do comment :) 5.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 30



Occupation - Virtual Assistant (SEO) June 2011 - 10,000 per month. Occupation - SEO rep. Aug 2012 - 15,000 per month Occupation - Team Leader (SEO) October 2013 - 20,000 per month October 2014 - 22,000 October 2015 - 24,000 Not a big leap so far, but the place I work at is awesome, a lot of flexibility and I am looking forward to develop parallel income streams. Hope that works ;) 2.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Written Dec 17, 2015

Rather than giving the actual salary and stock, they are phrased as the variable X and Y for the first year, and a multiple for the current year. 1. programmer 2. first programmer Salary + bonus: X, stock Y per year 3. current programmer salary + bonus: 6X, stock 20Y per year 4. Relevant education: masters in CS 677 Views Upvote

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Education: MCA (Rajiv Gandhi Technical Univarsity, Bhopal, MP) First Job : Joined as Software Engineer Salary : Rs. 60,000 PA Year: 2005 till 2007 (last salary drawn Rs. 2,00,000 PA as Sr. Software Engineer) Second Job: Joined as Sr. Software Engineer Salary : Rs. 360,000 PA Year : 2008 till Present day (L ast salary drawn 1,45,0000 as Project Manager) 8.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 25

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Prashant Written Dec 21

2007: Data Entry Operator. Salary: 2000 Rs/Month 2008: Writer. Salary: 4500/Month 2009: Writer. Salary:23000/Month 2010: Writer: Salary:30000/Month https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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2011: PSU. Salary: 22000/Month 2012: 1st Corporate Job. Salary: 41000/Month 2013: MNC. Salary: 55000/Month 2015: Second MNC Salary: 80,000/Month 2016: Start-up: 1,90,000/Month Planning to quit in a year or two. Need to go back to “Broke” stage to find excitement. 36.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 169


Anonymous Updated Feb 1, 2016

B.E. Computers 2011 2011 July - Joined as QA Professional : INR 30K per month (- 10% TDS) 2012 July - Promoted QA Professional : INR 35K per month (- 10% TDS) 2013 May - Promoted Associate Member of Tech Staff : INR 42K per month (- 20% Tax) 2014 May - Promoted Member of Tech Staff : INR 54K per month (- 20% Tax) 2014 November - Shifted to Product HQ with same designation : INR (equivalent) 340K per month (- 33% Tax) Still with the same company in January of 2016 with same salary (bonus excluded!) When I was in 10th standard (in 2005), I got to know one of my friends brother used to make 25k per month in his job and I used to wonder what he will do with that much money. Now, I see even this much money is not enough and doing your own business is real deal! 3.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Mansoor Shaikh Written Aug 11

Although I only read lots of questions here in quora but thought to write an answer for this one. First job: selling baloons (yes thats right) Salary: 20 rs per day (year 2008) Second job: working in icecream parlour Salary: 1500 pm (year 2008) Third job: working in xerox shop Salary: 4500 pm (year 2009) By this time i was also learning how computer works.. So joined MSCIT classes. Then here comes the biggest twist of my life. Fourth job: SEO fresher in a IT company Salary: 5000 pm (year 2009) Fifth job: SEO team lead Salary: 20000 pm (year 2012) Current job Digital marketing manager in one of reputed real estate company here in Pune.


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Salary: 60000 pm Where i see myself in next 2 years? Either i will be working in any MNC in higher position OR going to start my own digital agency. That's all.. 1.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 37



BE(Information Technology) Mumbai University 2011 1st Job: Trainee Test Engg. Salary: 14000 per month By chance Valid Score in GATE M.E. (Information Technology) Intern at MNC: 15000 per month Stipend Permanent Employee at Same company (2nd Job) 1st Year: 8 LPA 2nd Year: 9 LPA That's the effect of POST GRADUATION. My salary got increased by 4 times of the first job. 3.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I am from a third grade college of West Bengal(India). I did a lot of programming while in college and did 4 paid internships. I have 2 years of experience excluding internships. Salary: 1. Internship 1: Rs 10,000 per month for 2 months. 2. Internship 2: Rs 20,000 per month for 2 months. 3. Internship 3: Rs 10,000 per month for a month(remote). 4. Internship 4: Rs 10,000 per month for a month. 5. Job 1: Rs 6,00,000 per year. 6. Job 2: Rs 20,00,000 per year. Qualification: B.Tech in computer science. 3.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 28



Engineering degree, First job in India Rs. 5 lakhs pa ($10000) Moved to the US for grad school after three years First job after grad school, salary of $110k in consulting. Got recruited into private equity after four years - salary of $150k, bonus around $100k 549 Views Upvote

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Nageswara Rao Thota Written Dec 13

My first salary i n 1976 November was Rs 748 per month. In November 2016, it was Rs 74,000 per month. So, it increased by approximately 100 times in 40 years. But so did the prices of almost everything, milk, gold, petrol, meat etc. Inflation is a world wide phenomenon. 9.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 91

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Vridhi Jalan Written Jan 12

My answer is just a quip. To make it clear, I am still a student and not allowed to work. I earned Rs 200 selling lemonade on Holi that too in just half an hour. When I was in school, we used to celebrate Holi with great fanfare. My friend and I booked a stall and started selling the simplest possible “item” there could be - lemonade. Two boys were running another stall besides that of ours. They were selling some “bhang” thing. One of those guys was quick enough to warn me. He said, “ No one will buy what you are selling, it’s Holi and not some Independence Day”. I got angry but didn’t counter him. Unexpectedly, we sold out whereas, they barely had served 4–5 customers by then. It was my turn now. I went to him and said, “If no one is buying your drink, we can buy you out! lol !” Occupation - Lemonade seller Salary - Rs 200 for 30 minutes Not working currently, so my salary has dipp ed. Thanks :P 1.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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First Job: INR 20/- per day -> Current Job: INR 20 Lakhs per annum. Before starting my professional career after completing engineering I used to work as a daily wager in farms where I used to get Rs. 20/- per day. (Satureday/Sunday and holidays) Started my first job as a Software engineer in one of the services company in 2007. Profession: Software engineer Starting salary : INR 3 LPA (2007) Worked 6 years in my first company. Salary when I left the company: INR 6.8 LPA (2013) Current salary: 20 LPA working for a product company and couple job changes within last 3 years. Its really unfortunate to say that loyalty really sucks in software services industry. If you are leaving after such a long time they are ready to hire somebody from outside at the twice salary that you are earning but will not give you what you deserve. Don’t hesitate to change the job if you feel you are not paid enough. 5.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 79

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Occupation: B.Tech Electronics. Not from a reputed college https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Placed in HCL by the end of final year with a package of 2.75LPA in 2013. Joined HCL in 2013. Deployed in Service project. Related to DBA. It has been 3 years. My LPA now is 3.4. I did not concentrate on this because I am not interested in this domain. I wanted to change. Still trying to change. 14.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 54

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20011 : B. Tech passout from a decent private engineering college. Got hired by a mass IT recruiter as a software engineer in Chennai. Salary - 3.15 LPA 2012: Increased to 3.5 LPA 2013: Promotion. And salary increased to 4.5 LPA 2014-2016: MBA from a reputed college 2016: Working as a sales consultant in Noida. Salary : 16 LPA 3.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Written Mon

I am going anonymous just because i don't want anyone to give my salary reference in my current company. My salary hike within a year is 358%. Really i have also not expected this. I started my career with cognizant with ctc of 3.01 lpa, with one experience my salary raise by 3.35 lpa. I had waorked with cognizant for 2 years. After cognizant i joined a startup where my ctc is 7 lpa. Worked there for 8 months. After that i joined ola cabs where my ctc is 12 lpa. This is currently where i am working. So within a year my salary has increased from 3.35 lpa to 12 lpa. For others i will like to say: If you know you have talent, don't let it under estimate by your manager. 3.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 33



LOL. You've restricted me from answering properly. But fine, I'll stick to your format. 1. Occupation - Automation Engineer ( Currently) 2. First salary - 15,200/month - 2012 - Lecturer 23,800/month - 2013 - L ecturer ( Total of 11 months 2012-2013) 3. Present Salary - 18,557/month - 2015 - Automation Engineer (Joined 4 months back) 4. Educational Qualification - B.Tech - Mechanical - 2011 M.Tech - Mechatronics - 2015 1k Views Upvote

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H ow m uc h has your sal ar y i ncr eased fr om your fi rst j ob to today ? - Quor a Anonymous Written Jan 16

I started my career as a software developer in an IT company in the year 2014. My first salary was INR 33,000 per month and the annual package including bonus and other allowances was around 4.5 lakhs. Now I make INR 62,000 per month and take home around 8L annually. Coming to educational qualifications, I did Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics and communication in on of the not so famous government institutions. Although my academics have almost nothing to do with what I am working now. PS: I have not changed the company. 6.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 26



Here is my story :-) Mid 2010 - 4000/- per month. (internship) Internship period. Selected in a small company for 6 month internship with INR 4000/ month stipend. After completing internship returned to college to continue my studies. 2011 - After my B-Tech(CS) in 2011. I had to struggle a lot to get my first job in IT industry. After getting rejected by almost 15–20 small level companies. I got my first job :-) 2012- 1.8 LPA : I was selected by a mid level product based company in Mohali at ctc 1.8 LPA. (I got selected for govt. Computer teacher job but I decided to continue with IT as this is what I love to do). 2014 - 5 LPA : at the end of 2014, I decided to make a switch and moved to an service based company at 5 LPA. But I didn't got work as per my profile. So moved to another company in mid 2015. Mid 2015 - 7 LPA : Got an offer from an US based services based IT gaint at 7 LPA. Grabbed the offer, did some great quality of work and completed the project. 2017 - 11.5 LPA : Got an offer from a US bank with CTC 11.5 LPA for Mumbai location where I am getting opportunity to work on some really good latest technologies. So, overall in 5 years in IT industry, I moved from 1.8 LPA to 11.5 LPA. From a small scale company to a Big banking firm. Though switching companies very frequently in IT is not good as well but you should not stay at one place if you are not learning much and your skill set is not improving. If you have good skills in your field, no one can stop you from growing in your professional life. Keep learning, keep hardworking and keep moving on along with life. Stay focused. Cheer!!!! Stay blessed!!! 3.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 21

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Wow. This is an interesting question. I have been with the same company for 5 years now. Heres the story August 2010 - 12k PM. April 2011 - 22k PM. April 2012 - 28k PM April 2013 - 33.6k PM April 2014 - 42k PM April 2015 - 65k PM + Share of profits. A lot has changed. So, thats a 5x growth in 5 years. Im an advertising professional now focusing on Brand Consulting. 3.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation Software developer First year salary (38000 PM CTC 6LPA) Present day salary (almost 5 years down the line) (138000PM CTC 25 LPA) i guess i was just able to add a 1 in beginning all that to show for 5 years life is tough, i haven't progress ed at the pace i wanted to. 4.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Engineering Graduate 3500% increase from august 2012 to current. Software trainee at a startup with 4200 INR/month in 2012. Current Founder of a startup and IT and Research head for an advertising firm. Average outcome 1.5 L/month 521 Views Upvote

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I am Computer Science graduate from A-listed college of India. I got a job at Startup as Trainee for ₹ 7000. I was to call for any lead from where any revenue could be generated and then utilizing it. I worked as a trainee for 3 months after which I was elevated to full-time role. I got ₹10000 after that next month and my role changed to Business Development Manager where I was supposed to do B2B tie-ups. After that month I got ₹15000 for next 3 months where I did this along with added responsibility of Marketing and Operations.


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After 7 months since I joined I got another raise and my salary became ₹20000 along with ESOP of 1% vested in 3 years. It has remained constant since then. This is what happens in rat-race of startups in lieu of better returns. 8.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 30



Year 2005: Passed final Year graduation in Commerce, But didn’t Graduated as i had a subject leftover from first year to clear, it was Mathematics !! From first year grad to finally clearing it, I appeared 10 times for the same subject exam. Cleared in my 10th attempt !! ( BIG SIGH OF RELIEF ), But only short lived untill I sat and did my own evaluation. Realised I have passed out with barely any percentages to qualify even for a job with salary of 10k pm. Was I disappointed …. Aah Not at all !! 2006: Got placed at a Shining Jewel of IT sector in India , 92 odd engineers appearing for same job and only 1 commerce grad, and ending up being the only candidate to walk home with a joining date. That day I realised , my best is yet to come !! First Job : Infosys, Pune, India. Salary offered : 3.3 laks per annum Or 27500 per month. 2008: exactly after 2 years quit my job and decided to pursue MBA hence started preparing for CAT. Realised soon that I will never clear the bare minimum percentage required to qualify. Felt like I hit the dead emd again. 2008 - 2009 Was doing some part time business while studying for entrance exams to keep my incomes flowing in. Quit MBA prep and decided to plunge in full time in the business. Fast forward 2016, 10th anniversary of first Job at IT company, quick calculations showed I would be making anywhere around 7 lakhs per annum or there abouts, had I continued. Present day Salary :- 35 lakhs or 3.5 million PER MONTH !! A flat in Mumbai, bought my first car and gifted it to parents as wedding anniversary gift…. MERCEDES BENZ GL 350 !! Can’t forget the feeling of satisfaction, especially from the fact that I work lesser hours per day than in t he IT company, thus, devoting more time to family, friends, hobbies……LIFE !! 6.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 89



I am a software developer in cloud technology. almost 4 years in IT. Let's talk about my first salary, It is 8000 rs per month. Current salary is 90k per month. and bonus that's it. I am just an IT person like all others but I am lucky to crack good opportunities at right time. one thing that make me different from others is I am workaholic with productivity ;). 8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 25




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I started my career in Mobile Software industry as a Manual mobile app test associate in one of the prominent Korean Electronics Company in India Occupation : Mobile Automation testing First CTC(2010) : 1.5 Lac Current CTC(Now) : 11.5 Lac Educational qualification : B. Sc in Computer science 479 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Technical Architect 2. 5400 INR per month , 2004 3. 1,25,000 INR per month , 2016 4. BSc IT 2214% !! well it doesnt make sense with percentage, your needs, inflation and life style changes over decade :) 2.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 15

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My first foray into the sales world was retail shoe sales in 2001 - I made $6.75/hour and 3% commission. (Products averaged $20 - 50/pair. On a good week, I sold $2500.) I was in high school at the time. Fast forward to 2016 - I work as a salesperson at a commercial construction building products distributor, I have a bachelor’s in economics from a small public university (which isn’t required for my line of work), and I make $4 8,074/year salary and will have a bonus this year of about $9,500 on sales of $1.3 million. 2.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Yeah this is secind answer in quora goibg anonymous for obvious reasons because I don't want my peers know what am doing quora . Started my career as a desktop support engineer at wipto workibg from a third party consultancy wiyh 6500 per month and with an agreement 7500 after 6 months. Before wipro i worked a bpo vompany more salary them wipro.as i am bring a b.tech graduates i feel uncomfortable workibg in bpo company i left and joined wipro. 1. There is where my career started.first six months very hard and odd time for mr.and some time i felt do I really want this job ?.i kept my self calm and looking out for an opportunity. 2. After six months manager transferred me to a bank where i should go out of the city for technical issues that are being generated which can't be resolved remotely.i hardly managed with 6500 per month and some allowance(2000)for which i travelled to other cities. 3. After 3 months they put me another bank as a resident engineer .i t his is where i felt ashamed and depressed for not getting other job and not happy what am doing.carried cpu and monitors for 1 to 5 flors of the bank building . 4. One yer back got s elected in cmmi level 5 company as a contractor employees with salary of 17000 per month .as soon as i get into that company i got to the the things learn more technical and learn politits and more. In between got a cance to be parement employee .denied .


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5. Yes. Got offert from a us producted based company as a engineer system.joined with 6 lakh per annum with extra benfits.I don't feel its grate amount of salary I don't mind salary as am learing and working am getting money. 6. Sorry for the poor english i just started to write and developing my writing day by dy day .thanks for reading 1.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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One of the lasrgest Software firm in India 2008 - Assistant system Engineer - Trainee - 3.15 Lakhs P.A 2010 - Assistant System Engineer- 3.40 Lakhs P.A A reputed university in USA as a student 2011 -2012 - part time $11 per hour (10 - 15 hours per week) Company A 2012 - Software developer - $60,000 P.A Company B 2013 - Software developer - $72,000 P.A Company C 2013 - 2014 - Software Developer - $80,000 P.A Company D 2014 - 2015 - Software Developer - $85,000 P.A Merit Increment 2016 - Software Developer - $90,100 P.A All my work and higher studies in USA is in Texas. 485 Views Upvote

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Occupation : Developer First salary 2 Lakh/yr 2014 Present salary 3 Lakh/yr, 2016 Educational qualifications B.Sc . IT *Currently in bond else I would have moved from current employer to somewhere else. 240 Views Upvote

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Danish Ahmed, Cricket Addicted Written Oct 25

For me how much I earned it's not matter But when I thik about my past and I compare to present its matter a lot It's big difference, I start my journey for child labour at the age of 14 or 15, not bcoz of family issue but I want be A self made person not depend on others,


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I remember my 1st job 1 day it's books store I'm on newspaper counter , per day payout just 100rs on day MORNING 7 to 5 timing I intract lots of people on daily basic, After a finish my 1 working days and I get my 1st day payout I was so happy that I can't express that feeling . I done it what I wanted . I m happy and satisfied for made it Now I m running my personal business monthly turn over around 1.5 lacks It's \U0001f4af times more frm where I start. 1.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Rajendra Prasad Nayak, studied at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi Written Nov 10

Here goes my story….. From Jun 2012- Jun 2013 ,My CTC was 3.17 LPA from TCS From jun2013- jun2015, CTC - 3.75 LPA from TCS From Jun 2015- my in hand Salary is Rs 12400 per month. I am very happy with this salary from govt.of india. My current work- Teaching assistant for a course in a reputed college in India.Only Max 10 hrs of work per week that too depending on the professor's wish. My future Salary- as expected salary from a very reputed company in VLSI domain. (from Jun 2017).. Coming to education, currently I am pursuing my MTech from a premier institute in India in VLSI and embedded systems. So with in 4 years, my salary is going to increase at least 100 ℅ with very good job profile as compared to my first job. Edit 1: I am joining Sandisk (placed from Campus hiring) Bangalore from June 2017 as full time Product Engineer-ii Role. Its not that I am predicting my salary as some might be thinking. Edit 2: Thanks to Amit for the fact I had forgotten..Cheers:) 17.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 46



First Job-Aug 2008 joined as ASE at IBM(I was selected from my engg. campus where I was studying B.tech ECE) Package 2.95LPA(in hand 25k including 250/day of shift allowance) Job here was kind of cushy,not a gud thing for freshers. 2nd Job Aug 2012 Senior Software Engineer at Wipro Tech. By now I was lost in the IT market and I had no idea wat I was doing.I didnt like what I was doing at all. Package 7.75 LPA(60k in hand including shift allowance) 3rd Job(current)-October 2014 Lead consultant at a prestigious product company Package 12LPA (80k in hand) So yeah that is not much of growth.I see people who started at call centers earning more than me.I have never even been sent onsite.Problem is that I dont like IT field.I have never really worked hard.I hardly do any work all day.I am not sure what to do.. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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I was an undergraduate. First job: Customer support executive: salary 2 LPA Now: National sales manager for a US firm: salary 14 LPA. My first job was back in September of 2014. Planning to make Exec. Director in the coming years. I'm still an undergraduate. Planning to complete my graduation. The reason for anonymity is that a few people don't know I didn't finish college. Planning to keep i t that way. 3.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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From 3.05 lpa to 7.0lpa in 3 years First Company - MNC- 3.05 lpa (June 2013-Jan 2015) - Stayed on bench the entire period. Second Company - Startup - 7.0 lpa (Jan 2015-Present) - Working my ass off. Data Analytics (SAS). 636 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Anonymous Updated Apr 8, 2016

Ahaa.. Seems that you want to compare yourself to others and want to make yourself happy.. But telling you the truth.. even though I have many-folded my salary within three years, I always find someone better than me.. So a satisfactory salary is a myth.. Anyway PFB my details below and make yourself happy (All salaries are what i got after all deductions): First Offer( Feb 2013) : Rs 5000 /month - was not interested in job area. First Salary(Feb 2013) : Rs 17785 /month - in a well known service based MNC IT company. First Increment (May 2014) Rs 30029 /month It was a great increment and I though on top of the world.. until I found a girl who got better increment.. ;-) Second Increment (May 2015) Rs 55879 /month This time I surpassed all I knew in terms of percentage hike but was not still satisfied.. First Switch Offer (May 2015) Rs 96125 /month Yeah I switched immediately dumping my company which gave me >70% hike within 10 days of increment.. [Edit] : Update Update !! I got an offer from one of the biggest ecom compnies which earlier i would have just dream of. Now they are offering me arooun 1.5L a month. So now that was my journey from 5k to 1.5L PM Now m hungry for more... :D Occupation : Developer(play with data) Educational Qualification: B-Tech ECE from a third grade college 12.2k Views · View Upvotes


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I started my career with an OEM as an Assistant Engineer in 2006. My monthly take home salary was INR7,500 ($112). Today, in 2016, exactly after 10 years, my take home salary is INR75,000 ($1119), which is 10 times of what I started with. I've switched two jobs in between. 1.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 10

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1. software developer 2. $38000/year 1998 3. $105000/year 2016 4. Bachelor of science in computer science & mathematics The salary info does not include bonus or company matching in my 401k or my pension . 4.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Adnan Siddiqui Written Sep 25

Multilevel marketing | Home Hey,I have read your comments .you were earning good income for yourself…But promotion is your main problem right? Than I could really give you a full proof plan to build a secured future here. By secured I mean acquiring financial freedom. Also here we guarantee u than with in 4–5 years u will surely earn around 10–20 lacs…..or even more. That a big amount…..But one must think and believe big to really became big. So visit site contact us so that we can personally help you out some or the other way. Thank you 153 Views Upvote

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1 st job 1200/2nd job (year later )1600/went for management course after 3 years 6000/- in mumbai, so hard on that salary. reminding myself the song by bob dylen” like a rolling stone” came back to home town remain jobless for year and after too many difficulties , got the job for 2000/- initially whichc i ncreased to 3000/- after that. changed the job after 2 years for 5000/went to mumbai again for next job 10000/https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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left the job after 2–3 months and remain jobless for 2months got another job for 12000/started side job along which altogether gave me 50000-60000/- aprx at the time of living the company. presently getting 25- 35 lpa. good luck…. 6.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 28

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1. Civil Engineer in a Reputed Indian MNC 2. 19000 INR pm , annual ctc 2.4 Lakh INR year 2009 3. 95000 INR pm , annual ct s 13.5 INR year 2016 4. B Tech from NIT 242 Views Upvote

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500% Increase (from 2012 to 2016) Qualification: B.Tech. Occupation: Software Engineer First Salary: (Sep 2012): 4 Lac per anum Current Salary (2016): 24 Lac per annum. 245 Views Upvote

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Anonymous Updated Mar 21, 2016

I never thought about this before. It's interesting. I started working for IBM (IT) in 1963 after college at a salary of $10K. I retired 35 years later at a salary of $330K. That works out to an 11% increase per year. But-I never once got an 11% raise. I changed jobs a couple times, but I never got a big boost out of that. I'm going to have to think about this to figure out what the hell happened.:>) 409 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Started as sales executive in 1995 with INR 65000 pa. At INR 55 lacs pa currently.. still in sales! Qualifications: MBA - 3 yr part time from an average Delhi ins SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES FROM 1995(THAT I KNOW OF): 1 One is Ceo of a fairly large company..must be drawing atleast inr 3-4cr pa https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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2. A few are running start ups 3 three of them are running smallish dot coms 4 4-5 of them have retired 5 one has become a writer 6 probably rest of them are in corporate in sr-mid levels I currently hv 60 lacs as savings and investments Also I had purchased a house which I hv paid for completely..so currently experiencing loan free status..though I want to buy another house I like travelling abroad once a year And I want to retire if possible by 45 from corporate world and do things that interest me 3.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 39


Sourabh Gupta, Team leader at Wealth Management Written Tue

My first job was in a small organization. Where I was hired as fresher with just 10000 Rs stipend. After 6 months of rigorous training I was hired with salary package of 2.5Ipa. I had studied Java programming and worked very hard and learned all aspect s of software engineering and corporate culture in that organization. During my tenure of 4 year in that organization my CTC had been increased to 5.5 lpa. After working there I feel there is not much learning there and I was thinking that I am under paid with current market situation. I decided to look out other opportunities. Finally I cracked the interview process I was having multiple (around 3). I joined a top notch Bank as Analyst position which has offered highest CTC of all offers which is 9 lacs. I have spend 3 years in that organization. Then still same I was again started think there is not much learning here and I have to start looking other opportunities. This time I cracked the interview of one of top brokerage firm which had offered me the package of 14 lpa. Right now I am working at the same organization since last 3 years. Currently I am getting 20 lpa. 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 10

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Well this is a very tricky question because just for the love of money people jump many companies. I did the same but majorly for the work that I do. I started my courier in 2005 as a Software Engineer Trainee with a Software Giant with a meager stipend of 4500 rupees per month. I spent 6 years in the company without caring about money but I focused more on developing my basics, my core and my domain knowledge. And well it paid rich dividends. Today I am CEO of my own company and even sky is not the limit :) So in short, Occupation : Software Engineer Trainee to CEO Year 2005 : 4500 per month Year 2016 : 3700% increase in base salary and well the company is mine too :D 282 Views


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1. Occupation - IT emplyee 2. First salary, year - 3LPA,2013 3. Present salary, year - 8.5LPA , 2016 4. Educational qualifications- B.Tech-ECE 121 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Vivek Somani Written Oct 20, 2015

this is about my friend, we did graduation from IIT Delhi his salary structure: first --2011 --deloitte -- 6 lakh second: 2013 rothschild -- 12 lakh third: 2014 apax partner -- 1 crore fourth: 2015 pursuing MBA from wharton :) so i think salary depends only on the skilss, even he is a engineering graduate he completed his CFA (american chartered accoutant degree) between 2011-2014 so salary doesnt depend on your experience, it only depends on the skills you develope with time 34 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Ram Kumar Written Aug 7

Occupation:milkman/milk distributor First salary:in 1996 I would earn 500rs per month Current salary : runs into 6digit Mark every month Qualification:MBA At one point of time I had planned to quit and be at a regular work but I did not for which I am thankful now I am way ahead in life 1.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Started career in 2013 with a indian IT company salary :3.0lpa joined a German company in 2015 salary 6lpa joined again a different German company in 2016 salary 11 lpa. currently working as senior software engi neer. 11k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 41



I'm posting anonymously out of respect for my former employers. 1. I'm a software developer 2. I started in 2009 in ThoughtWorks India as a Software Dev. Earned around 5.4LPA. I https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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doubled my salary the day I left. 3. I'm earning 6 times (32 LPA) in 2015. 4. I have a BE 2.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Sanju,, QA at Hewlett-Packard Sanju Written Jan 3

Occupation : Quality analyst in supply chain operations at HP(hewlett packard) Education: computer science engineering(B.tech) 2012 passout First salary (2012) - 2.6 LPA Present salary - 4.5 LPA Life is sucking me to the core …but patience is a virtue ..so Iam keep on trying for other companies for the past 1 year tats the lesson i learnt not to give up at any cost 2.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 16



I started my career in Tata Elxsi with just 14k (but the actual pay was supposed to be 21k as per the Offer Letter) as Software Engineer in 2009. It was a high recession time in IT and so my pay got reduced. 2009: Tata Elxsi: 14k -> 21k -> 29k 2011: Next Company: 37k 2012: Next Company: 49k 2013: Next Company: 54k (Contract Job near my Native) 2014: Next Company: 51k (Got Job in my Native itself. It is Tier 2 City and they have a strict Pay Scale Bench Mark) -> 55k 2016: Present Company -> 70k (Now I am in currently in Central Government PSU) P.S: The amount mentioned is my Take Home Edit 1: 1: After seeing other answer where they had mentioned their part time earnings, I like to add those info. 2008: During my final year in college, joined a local IT Training Center as Part Time Instructor with a salary of Rs. 1500/Month. So from Rs. 1.5k to Rs. 70k in 9 Years. 9.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 16


Geethanjali Balaji Written Sun

Got into Wipro in december 2007 , worked there for 3.5 years .. quit due to a type of rheumatoid arthiritis .. unable to work in IT . when others here were trying for jobs i was writing CAT , and trying for MBA , didnt get the college of my choice , suffered due to acute tyep R.A till 2013 , got back to work , but now trying to become functional consultant .. untimately .. neither my salary has increased , nor my MBA dreams succeeded .. 7.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13


Anonymous Updated Sun

First Job- trainee test engineer Hyderabad - 1.2 L. P. A. https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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> 1st Promotion- Associated test engineer Hyderabad- 1.68 L.P.A > 2nd Promotion- Test engineer Hyderabad- 2.88 L.P.A Second Job- Software engineer Bangalore- 5.25 L.P.A studied a it and mastered a few algorithms got hike of +100% , Salary =12 LPA I work with fintech company in Bangalore and I have 3 years of work experience in total. 477 Views Upvote



2011 - 1st job offer : PPO from the startup I interned at - 45k pm 2011-2013 MBA 2013 - 1st job - 80 k pm (I got placed on 2nd day of placements - FYI - Day 0, Day 1, Day 2.. is the convention) 2014 - 1st increment - 88 k pm 2015 - Job switch to an e-comm firm - 110 k pm Left it for a preferred location, better role in same industry 2015 - Job switch to another e-comm firm - 135k pm I am happy with my current job. 2.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Shivanath Sai, Sai, studies ECE at NIT Nagaland Written Jul 21, 2016

THIS is the story of my father 1. He worked as a newspaper boy for 145 rs per month when he was in 10 class 2. He worked in a small hotel as a part time worker and studies intermediate for 2 years 3. He then took a gap of 1 year working in the hotel soon he got admission in a graduation college in khammam 4. He worked under a small business man for 8k per month and completed his graduation 5. He then got married and had a son and worked for same 8k for a period of 2 years 6. He soon came to hyderabad with his family with just 1400 rs and started working in software company (INFOSYS) He then cleared the cat exam and got admission in IIM calcutta and he works at ITC and draws a salry of about 15lpa(present) 389 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Mechanical Engineer With year back

So technically I got my result cleared in 2011 Was in job since 2010. 2010: First Job INR 15600 in hand. CTC = 1.98 Lacs 2011: Second Job INR 11500 in hand. CTC = 1.50 Lacs 2012: Higher Education (MTech) https://w ww.quor a.com /H /How - mu much- has- y yo our -s -sal ar y- i nc ncr ea eased- fr om om -y -your -f -fi r s stt- jjo ob- to to- to today

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2014: Third Job INR 60000 in hand. CTC = 8.0 Lacs 28th Oct 2015: Still continuing with the same job. Hoping to start something on my own next year. 930 Views Upvote



1. Occupation - Software Development 2. First salary, year - 8000 per month / 2012 3. Present salary, year - 7.5 lpa / 2015 4. Educational qualifications - B.Tech B.Tech IT 4.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Saju Thomas, Thomas, QA Manager Written Oct 17, 2015

First Job : UI Developer First Salary : 96000pa\2002 Education : B.Tech Computer Science

Present Job : QA Manager Present Salary : 15Lpa Education : MIS. 4.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Brian L Cartwright Written Oct 28, 2015

Photogrammetrist (extracting geospatial data from 3d aerial photos) 1985, $5/hr 2015, $38/hr still with same company computers have greatly increased the productivity of each individual 747 Views Upvote



Around 500 percent from my first job recently got a 100 percent hike in my dream company.. I am a Engineer from a normal college and normal percentage in company engineering but had to struggle a lot to get job in my dream company :) 1.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Michael DeBusk, DeBusk, Healthcare Security Officer, Hypnotist, Neuro-Linguistic Programmer Written Oct 30, 2015

Technically speaking, I'm doing the same job at the same company. My income is about 7.5 times what it was when I started in 1986. 744 Views Upvote




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Education -B.COM Started working in 2007, was studying in 12th.First Salary was-3666INR/Month Currently in 2016–40KINR/Month 155 Views Upvote

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Software Engineer First Salary 2015 - Campus Selection 12L. Changed company Current Salary - 16L . B.Tech EE. 11 Views Upvote

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.Net developer Started my career with Cognizant at 2011 for 3 L Switched to Accenture at 2015 for 9 L Joined Microsoft GD 1 month back i.e 2016 for 14 L 122 Views Upvote

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First Job Software Engineer INR 18,000/ month - 2006 Qualifications then : BE Now Product Management INR 3,00,000/ month Qualification MBA 69 Views Upvote

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1st Job Feb 2012 --> Salary was INR 10000 PM 1st Job Feb 2013 --> Salary was INR 15000 PM 1st Job Aug 2014 --> Salary was INR 18000 PM left 1st job and join 2nd Job 2nd Job Feb 2014 --> Salary was I NR 30000 PM 2nd Job Apr 2015 --> Salary was INR 40000 PM left 2nd job and join 3rd job 3rd Job Sep 2015 --> Salary is INR 52000 PM https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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2009-2013 - Rs 6k Per month (from tuitions); 2013 - First job SE Rs 20k Per month;(Grade C Engineering College) 2014- Second Job 45k Per Month 2015 - 3rd job 100k Per month. 6k---->100k in 6 years :) (Thank you God ! ) 822 Views Upvote

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HS Grad job 1 cashier 12400 just show up...went to school for a technical degree next year job 2 24000 technical degree went up 4k for the next 3 years as went to college if you want to count the tuition reimbursement add another 5k to that yearly. Job 3 48k engineering degree next year: 65, 88,131, 146 along this route next 15 years with some much higher than last years salary last year 170k 763 Views Upvote

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Occupation - Business research & consulting First salary, 2010 (content writer) - 1.2 LPA Present Salary, 2015 (Consulting) - 14.5 LPA Education - B.Tech (Biotech) 3.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Head of Marketing, Australia 2. AU$45,000, 2007 3. AU$190,000 + 25% B onus, 2015 4. Bachelor or Marketing, Master of Management 882 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Occupation - Senior Application Specialist(Software Guy) 2. First salary, year - 60k/2008 3. Present salary, year - 10L/2015 4. Educational qualifications - Diploma in IT 4.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I have done my engineering from a reputed college, got an offer from infosys for 4.5 lac per annum ..rejected it joined a Tier B MBA college ...was not placed after my MBA this was in 2010 , searched job for almost a year ..prepared for goverment exams also https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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no luck ,in my home town joined a job as recruiter in 2011 night shift for 1,80000 was not able to cope up with enviorment left that in 5 months again searched job for 2-3 months joined as Business Analyst in TCS for 2,20000 (17k per month ) for the same job they have hired plain graduate ..(BBA) was able to do better after an year my salary was 3.6 lac ...got married left tcs ..again searched job in gurgaon for almost 7 months ..got an offer from Oracle for an EA job package 5 lac ..i joined it and realized it was a thankless job ..i was not sure where my career is going i was doing nothing which i learned from my MBA (Marketing) & engineering...have to leave that job also ..as husband shifted his base to bangalore ..after 5 months of job searching got an offer from IBM as social media analyst for a package of 8lac ..love my job currently .....but not sure where my career is going all my friends placed after engg or even mba are earning around 20- 26 lac per annum and me after 5 years of mba almost 2 years of home sitting here at 8 lac 4.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I will not mention summer jobs, internships, jobs held as a student to misrepresent and show thousands of percent of increase. But from the first full time job after graduation til today: Degree: Masters Degree in Computer Science First job: Technical Manager Assistant in a small IT consulting firm: $31000 in 1998. Today: Pre-sales Engineer in software company: $220000. That's a 710% increase in 17 years. I'm not particularly proud of it. In retrospect, over a course of 17 years, I can tell that I have wasted at least 3 to 4 years stagnating in exchange of false promises of advancement. I recently tried to visualize my income increase since I started working with data from my income tax statements and I learnt a few things about myself specifically about how I progressed my professional career based on income stagnation. Periods where I was getting a small increase of 4–5% per year kept me happy, chugging along and sometimes wasting time. In periods where my income was flat, I had to react to provide for my family in an environment where living costs were growing constantly. It resulted in exponential growth The regret I have is time I have wasted with the satisfaction of 4–5% increases and false hope of promotions that were never to come. 338 Views Upvote

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Occupation : Application Developer First Salary,Year: Rs 8000/month,2012 Present Salary,Year : Rs 75000/month,2016 Educational Qualifications : Bachelor of Engineering(Computer Science) 211 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Occupation - Software Developer 2. First salary, Jun 2010 - 3.3 LPA


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3. Present salary, Sep 2015 - 12 LPA 4. Educational qualifications - BE Computer Science 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Budding accountant working in Big-4 firm. I have a one-year Mastter’s in Accounting. Started working in 2012: first-year associate making $48 2016: senior associate making $85 99 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Rajesh Vemula, Unity 3D Developer Written Oct 20, 2015

i am graduated from by B.tech in 2012 and i am an android developer. I got my first job in i-next solutions in april 2013 (sorry written 2014 ) which is in Bangalore and my first salary is 4k .. You heard right 4000...Its so hard for me living with that in Bangalore . After one year i left that job at that time i am getting 8000.. I learned Unity game engine and making games with it..Presently i make 300$ a day from my apps. 2013 april = 4000 per month 2015 October = 500000-600000 per month. Presently we are working to start a new Game studio in Hyderabad and i am 24 years old 4.2k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 13



1. Occupation-Software Developer 2. First salary, year -320000 INR per yeat in 2010 3. Present salary, year - 2000000 Inr per year in 2016 4. Educational qualifications - Bachelor of Engineering 154 Views Upvote

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Well, the answers have indeed depressed me. I preferred to stick to my first employer for a long time, longer than the most at least. I did not switch, and my hike has been much less compared to my old peers and colleagues. I suppose, that's a small price to pay for loyalty!!! 785 Views Upvote

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Occupation : Quality Analyst First salary, year: 18000 2013


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Present salary, year : 30000 2015 Educational qualifications: B.E. IT 616 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Occupation - Software Engineer 2. First salary, year - 25k p.m. , 2013 (age-23) 3. Present salary, year - 55k p.m. , 2016 (age-26) 4. Educational qualifications- B.E. 160 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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All these answers make me feel like a fool ! I earn enough to get by only. My first salary was : 7000 per month in 2005 I left working to study for many years. 2012 : 24000 per month 2014 : 44000 per month (This is another job for which I had to clear an exam ) 2016 : 51000 per month 2016 July on wards after 7th pay commission : Around 73000 per month I am a translator . 3.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 18



Occupation: IT Engineer First Salary : 10L P/A - 2012 Present Salary : 30L P/A + 10L Stocks - 2016 Education Qualifications: Engineering 39 Views Upvote

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Occupation: Software Engineer First Salary : 14,000INR per month(250$), 2006 Present Salary: 6000$ per month Education: MS 20 Views Upvote

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1. Software Engineer 2012 Passout First salary (August 2012) 96000 PA Current Salary (October 2015) 10,00,000 PA Educational Qualification : Bachelor of Technology 3.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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General Manager in Healthcare Company First salary: Rs 4,800 per month (2008) Salary today: 165,000 per month (2016) B.Tech (Mech) and MBA from a top B-School 304 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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2900% 3 years experience.. Software Developer.... Being from a non premier college.. I started out on a very small level and have risen to a place i am happy about.. 1) Started my career i n a single room company as Java developer... Worked on stipend of 5000 INR per month.. 2) Switched after 3 months to a company with 10 employees and a salary of 2.7 lpa.. 3) Switched after 9 months to an ecommerce startup with starting salary of 4.5 lpa and after 2 years and 2 promotions and 4 hikes earning 12 lpa.. 4) Cracked interview of a global bank and will join next month on salary of 18 lpa... That has been my career in 3 years.. 2.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 59



Software Enginner in Bangalore, India First Salary: 50$ per month, 2003 Present: 6150 per month, 2016 Education: Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science) 132 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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1. Occupation: SDET-II 2. First salary: 7.85 lpa INR, 2011 3. Present salary: 29 lpa INR, 2016 4. Educational qualification: B.Tech (IT) 35 Views Upvote

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Udit Sharma, Passionate about cars, Airplanes, knows my part on outsourcing, software company Written Oct 20, 2015

1st job, CTC: 1,32000 (July 2012- Dec 2012) 2nd job, CTC: 1,92000+ incentives ( Jan 2013- July 2014) 3rd job, CTC: 4,00000 +incentives ( May 2014- present) https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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July 2011 - TCS - 1.85 LPA Present Day - IBM - 10 LPA Duration - 5 years Qualification - Diploma in ECE Occupation - UNIX Admin Age - 24 Cheers :) 94 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Telecom Engineer First Salary: 4K INR take home PM 1993 Present Salary :2L INR take home PM 2016 B.E. Electronics & Communications 14 Views Upvote

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1. Occupation : Lead Analyst 2. First salary, year - 25000, 2013 3. Present salary, year - 115000, 2016 4. Educational qualifications - BE+MBA Average Guy with Average growth :) 76 Views Upvote

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1 : Occupation : Intern , Now team lead 2 : First salary : $0, June 2012 3 : Present Salary : $2377 a month, September 2016. 4 : Undergraduate(computer science) 58 Views Upvote

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Occupation: Software Engineer First Salary: 3.35LPA , year: 2013,October Present Salary: 12.5 LPA, year:2016,May Educational Qualification : B.E in EC 224 Views · View Upvotes


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Occupation : Business Analyst First year salary : 8k in hand(2011) Present Salary : 60 k in hand(2016) 650% increment … Education qualification : Btech Honest reason : Hardwork and luck both favoured!! 1.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Manufacturing Engineer . (Automotive) 2011 - 1.5 lpa 2012 - 3 lpa 2013 - 3.8 lpa 2014 - 4.9 lpa 2015 - 9 lpa (2nd job) BE Mechanical . 133 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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#1st Salary : 2.7 LPA - August 2012 #Present Salary : 16.43 LPA - October 2015 I am Software Engineer from a third grade college. 1.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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about 1000 on tuitions - 2003 now 45lpa - Artificial intelligence with 8.5yrs exp 1.3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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First Job - Feb 2012 - Jabong - 20.5K Rs per month Now third Job - Aug 2016 - Tolexo - 54.5K Rs per month 102 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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From INR 1,80,000 per annum to INR 51,00,000 per annum in 9 years. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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I did my MBA after graduating in commerce. 123 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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From my first part time job , it has increased by 100 times in 8 years ad full time job by 5.5 times in two years 52 Views Upvote

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Answers that need improvement Anonymous Updated Jan 14

Occupation: Assistant manager US tax April 2012 to Oct 2012 : 17000 pm Oct 2012 to Sept 2013 : 18500 pm Oct 2013 to Sept 2014 : 23000 pm Oct 2014 to Sept 2015 : 28500 pm Oct 2015 to Sept 2016 : 45000 pm Oct 2016 to Dec 2016 : 60000 PM Education : MBA Finance I have included net take home per month. Edit: We are expecting a mid year hike of 15 to 20% in Feb. :D 1.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Soul Speek Written Oct 20, 2015

Nice thread to BRAG about your achievements I must say ;) It would have bee more helpful, had the title been how to get raised from ordinarity to higher income groups. Many people would have benefitted from insights of successful people. 394 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Gurkirat Singh Ghuman, Reporter, Punjab Legislative Assembly. Written Jul 12, 2016

I joined in the year of 1993 in Punjab Civil Secretariat and got first salary Rs 900 and after that I got job as reporter in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha and today getting around Rs 90,000. 79 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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SE 2008 - 18k


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Kaushik Deepak Written Oct 23, 2015

At one point of time I wasn't getting any job after my college (average academics),but after a lot of struggle got a job in VLSI domain in 2012. CTC 1.8 LPA I changed my 1st company in 2015.now CTC 14 LPA :):) :) 5 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Rakesh Chandra, Member of Faculty. BIRD Lucknow. Written Oct 24, 2015

04.12.1984- ADO in NABARD- Rs.2100 p.m+ 300p.m. perquisites+ House rent 700 p.m. = 3100 p.m.monetary value of other benefits like medical/LTC/PF contribution 900/- = 4k 31.102015-DGM/FM in NABARD/BIRD- Rs.150000p.m.+ 40000 perq. + HR/quarters Rs. 30000/-=220000 p.m. monetary value of other benefits like medical/Income Tax on Perq/LTC/PF/Pension contribution 80000/-=300k 5 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Sujith Niraikulathan, 1.5 years experience in android development. Currently working in WitWorks. Written Jul 16, 2016

1: Occupation - Android Developer 2: First salary - 1.2 Lakhs/Yr (Jan,2015 to Feb,1016) 3: Second/Present - 6 Lakhs/Yr 4: Educational Qualification - B.Tech Information Technology 11 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Vikash Srivastava, 10+ years of experience in field of IT Written Oct 26

1st year - software developer - Manufacturing Company X - 2006 - 10K pm 10th year - Head of IT Dept - Manufacturing Company X - 2016 - 200K pm Started with Oracle, now leading SAP HANA projects. 16 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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John Smith, works at Bloggers Written Oct 30, 2015

June 2013: started making $60,000 January 2014: pay pushed up to $91,000 Present: $103,000 and looking for other jobs for a 10% - $15% pay increase. 4 Views Upvote

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Written Sep 19

% increase: 11159% Occupation: Started off in customer support and currently in marketing & communication First job: March 3, 1993 Last job: July 25, 2016 Education: MA English, MBA Marketing 130 Views Upvote

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Andrew Zed Written Oct 30, 2015

age 16: $1 an hour age 42: $60 and hour 4 Views Upvote

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Yogesh Gandhi, Concept of time is usually misunderstood Written Jul 22, 2016

1. Occupation Software Engineer 2. First Salary, year = 16155, 2005 3. Present Salary, year = 112500, 2016 YoY growth = 19% 7 Views Upvote

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Pawankumar Pawar , Legal Practitioner, Advocate; Practising in Hon'ble High Court, Aurangabad. Written Jul 21, 2016

My first stipend was Rs. 500/- for a month in Jully 2006 when i joined a office. In June 2016, i charged Rs. 500000/- towards my fees for a matter. By the way, I am Advocate. 5 Views Upvote

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Ruchir Sr ivastav, Technical Advisor II at Superior Energy Services (2013-present) Written Oct 29, 2015

Petroleum Engineer (Graduate Studies), % increase from start to present is 2125.9%. But my first pay was in India and currently I am in the US. This is solely based on the questions and does not account for the differences in living standards. 11 Views Upvote

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Anonymous Written Nov 9, 2015

Programmer/Analyst $2000/month $150000/year BS, CIS MBA 1 View Upvote

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Amit Agarwal (engineer), former Software Engineer at Google Written Oct 8


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My first salary after graduate school was $120K in 2008. The last one I had was $180K in 2013. Now I make much more in my own company. 10 Views Upvote

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1. IT Assist ant, Web Dev, now Junior Programmer… 2. $7.25/hr as a part-time job throughout my bachelors, 2010–2015 3. $25/hr, 2016 4. B.S Computer Science 1 View Upvote

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First job(At the age of 15): Sold air fresheners in streets during weekends to support my family fi nancially. Salary: 200–300 INR per day based on the sales I made. Current job(At the age of 24): Software Engineer at “World's most customer centric” ecommerce company Salary: 145000 USD an year plus bonuses and stocks Educational qualification: Masters in CS. 3 Views Upvote

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1. Marketing manager 2. $6.00/hr pre-college, $37,000 post-college (2010) 3. $150,000 (2016) 4. MBA 1 View Upvote

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John G. Herndon, works at California State University, Hayward Written Dec 4

Occupation: many different jobs, never afraid to learn something. Nothing is impossible. Salary first year: $21,800 in 1989 Salary today: a lot more than $21,800…. As high as I could go without educating myself out of the job market. 4 Views Upvote

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Kartikeya Khosla, Software Engg. Written Oct 28, 2015

Occupation :- Software developer First Job :Started by career as a junior software engg. Jan 2014 - Rs 8000/- (PM) Second Job :https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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May 2014 - Assistant programmer - Rs 17000/- (PM) Nov 2014 - Programmer - Rs 22000/- (PM) Third Job :Aug 2015 - programmer - Rs 2 3500/- (PM) 6 Views Upvote

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Siddharth Oza, works at Wipro Written Jan 5

occupation: field operator refinery (previously) (senior consultant now in engg & IT comp) comp first salary: INR 15000/month 2008 last salary: INR 1 ,12,000/month take home (plus variable as well) 3 Views Upvote

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Durai Naidu, Mechanical Engineer Interested in engines ,mechanisms,costing and economics Written Dec 18

First Job 2000/month in 2002.Present 103000/month.52 times nearly over the period of 14 years 7 Views Upvote

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Uthirapathy Kadirvelayudham, works at Advocate,Judge,Administration Written Jul 13, 2016

Advocate(1977) Rs.1000/-per month Judge(2002) Rs.26000/-per month Administrator(2016)Rs.160000/-per month 5 Views · Answer requested by Ashish Pratap Upvote

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B Tech Mehcanical Joined an automobile firm as a GET in July 2010 for 3.6 LPA Today, 11 L PA: Territory Manager Service with 3rd company 10 Views Upvote

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April 2010 :- Software Developer 10k per month for MNC April 2015 :- Software Developer 1 lac per month for startup with some healthy amount of stockes. Waiting for it to get aquired. Education:- M tech 1 View Upvote

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Surojit Manna Written Oct 20, 2015

Nothing.. but the pice is increasing of our markets.. 7 Views Upvote

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Sumanth Cheedella, works at www.trendin.com Written Oct 20, 2015

Cant share specific details. But happy to share that my ctc hiked up by 650% approx in 10.5 yrs... 6 Views Upvote

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Yuvaraj Kasi, works at HCL Technologies Written Oct 22, 2015

Did my B E mechanical, 2009-Graduate Engineer Trainee -1.24LPA 2010-Intern -1.74 LPA 2011-design Engine er-3.65LPA, 2014-Lead Engineer-5.5 LPA 2015(Jan)-senior consultant-8LPA

2015(Apr)- got pink slip - 0 LPA 2015(Oct)- still searching for a job with min salary for my EMI. 4 Views Upvote

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Rishit Arora Written Oct 23, 2015

Well we are talking in Nos. Important is how much time you get to spend money you earn. Do business and get life. 4 Views Upvote

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1. Design Engineer 2. 3.7 lpa, 2013 3. 4.7 lpa, current 4. BE (Mechanical) 1 View Upvote

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Upasna Dhiman, Software Engineer, multiple job experiences Written Oct 27, 2015

After reading this, you will surely be amazed. My Educational Qualification: B.Tech in ECE Occupation: Project Assistant at CEERI, Pilani (ECE) Salary: 10K per month Occupation:Software Engineer at Accenture Salary:3 Lakh PA to 4.78 LAkh PA Then I got married and quit my Job in the hope to find a new one in my City. Friends called me Nuts or if I am out of my mind. I did not bother all that to be near my family. Soon, I got the job in my City but it was less than What I used to get few years back Occupation:Software Engineer https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Salary:2.4 Lakh PA I did not loose hope and luckily I got my Current job Now, I am happy with it as I am living perfect Work-Life balance Occupation:Software Engineer Salary:3 Lakh PA 5 Views Upvote

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Capstone Securities Analysis Pvt Ltd. April 2012 1st year - 96k PA 2nd year - 8 LPA 3rd year - 14 LPA 4th year so far > 12 Lakhs P. S - I have fixed salary and variable salary. Where variable salary depends on my performance. I make money is $ but eventually get paid in ₹ . 1 View Upvote

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2013 - TCS - 3.15 LPA 2015 - TCS - 4.2 LPA 1 View Upvote

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Jitendra Pratap Singh Written Oct 30, 2015

From Rs. 1500/- per month in the year 2003 as a private tutor to around 1.25 lacs per month including perks and allowances at present, that too in government sector...I think I have done a pretty good job.... 4 Views Upvote

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Software Engineer 38 K , November 2011 1,48000 , July 2016 BTech , CSE , from a not so well known university 1 View Upvote

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INR 3.25lpa to 8.3lpa in 10 months 1 View Upvote

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Job title : iOS Developer Exp :2.7yrs First job Jan 2014 : Rs 8000 per Month in hand salary RS 7,141. Rs 96000 per annum Current salary: Rs 50000 per month. Rs 6.5lpa. 1 View Upvote

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Puneet Bhardwaj, 6+ year Working As banking and Recovery Written Jul 22, 2016

1. Occupation- Service Executive Banking and Recovery 2. First salary, year-2010 Rs.7000 3. Present salary, year-2016 Rs.19000 4. Educational qualifications-BBA 7 Views Upvote

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Occupation: Software engineer, First salary - 1.2 LPA - 2013 , Joined average sized company in Bangalore India. Present salary - 5.2 LPA -2016 , Again joined another average sized company in Bangalore India. I have done Master in Computer Applications . 1 View Upvote

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Rajeev Kushwaha, Trainer By mistake Gadget Freak by Nature Written Aug 4

Started My Job as CCE 1. Occupation: Customer Service Executive 2. First salary, year: 5200 INR/pm - May 2010 3. Present salary, year: 26k INR/pm - July 2016 4. Educational qualifications: B.A Now I’M working as Trainer 10 Views Upvote

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Gaurav Agarwal Written Aug 8

1. Supply Chain Analytics 2. First Year Salary: 3.50 lac, Year 2011 3. Current Salary: 15 lac, Year 2016 4. Education: Msc Supply Chain, BE Electrical 3 Views Upvote

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Rajesh, software engineer Written Aug 8

Software Engineer First: 2.45 lpa, 2005 Present: 14.5 lpa, 2016 https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Educational qualification: M.Tech. 4 Views Upvote

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Sanjay Bezzam Written Aug 8

Hi, My details : In 2004: 1.Occupation : Consultant in an IT firm 2.First Salary, Year: 3.5 l.p.a in 2004 3.Present salary, year : 15.5 l.p.a in 2016 Notable thing is, my net salary was equal to USD 900 in 2004, and now it is around USD 1500 (just USD 600 growth in 12 years). Most of my salary growth is related to inflation only. 4 Views Upvote

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Anilkumar Koneru, studied at National Institute of Fashion Technology Written Sep 28

1. OCcupation - A.M Product development Knite 2. First - 2,00,000 3. Present - 8,50,000 4. Education: NIFT (B.Fashion. Technology) 5 Views Upvote

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Alok Y Written Sep 28

Occupation→Call Center worker at Unisys First Salary→INR 22,000 per month Present Salary→INR 23,000 per month after 4 years Educational Qualification→12th grade 13 Views Upvote

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Starting salary at 3.2 lakhs per annum in fy 2009. Increase to 6 lakhs per annum in fy 2011. Did MBA from tier 1 school. 12 lakhs per annum in fy 2013. In fy 2016 shifted to mbb firm at inr 70 lakhs per annum. Hope the trend continues. :-) 1 View Upvote

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1. Software development engineer 2. 316000 lpa , 2012 3. 1030000 lpa, 2016 4. BE in IT 1 View


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None of your concern you loser !! 1 View Upvote

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2007 - 80k per annum - call center 2008–1.32L Per annum - BPO 2010 - 2L per annum - Appraisal in same BPO 2012 - 2.5L per annum - again appraisal 2013 - 12L per annum - RM at Dubai Bank 2014 - 1.2 L per annum - PSU ( reverse engineering). 2016 - 2L per annum same PSU 2017 ??? 1 View Upvote

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Qualification: B.Tech (2010), Masters(2013) 2010–13 : Research Scholar/Teaching Assistant- Stipend Rs. 8000/- p.m 2013–14: Faculty in Engineering Colleg e, Salary Rs. 33,000/- p.m 2015–16: Engineer in MNC, Salary 1 Lac + p.m 2017 onwards: Class-1 officer, Govt. of India, Salary Rs. 55,000/- p.m 1 View Upvote

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Murugan HBK Written Dec 29

1. 2008 - 2000 per month - Office boy in Vodafone showroom - After XII std 2. 2008 - 2012 - Laborer & Painter - 200 per day - Only Weekends during my Engineering 3. 2012 - ASE - 25ooo per month - On campus placement with TCS 4. 2015 - Software Engineer - 45000 per month (Switched to other) 5. 2016 - Associate Projects - 65000 per month (Switched to other) 7 Views Upvote

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Ankit Singh, studies Computer Science at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra (2019) Written Dec 31

I’m still studying. I’m in second year. 4 Views · Answer requested by Saipavan Reddy Upvote

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Manjunath Sp Written Dec 31

I think i deserve to answer this question. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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First Job: TCS..Joined in 2014 as ASE Package : 3.26lakhs/anum Switched in Nov 2014. Second Job: Cisco Systems..Joined as Network Consulting Engineer Package: 10.7lakhs/anum Lazy to calculate the percentage of increase;) 6 Views Upvote

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April 2012 - 8000 per month July 2016 till date - 62530 per month Sr. Engineer in pune base d software company. 1 View Upvote

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Parag Patil Written Jan 13

1. Occupation: In the year 2004 I had joined a software company as Jr. Software Engineer. I worked till the year 2010 in the same company. Later in 2010 I had joined another company with 125% salary hike. I am currently working as technical Manager. 2. First salary, year: My first salary was Rs. 3000 a month. 3. Present salary, year: My current salary is Rs. 47000 a month. 4. Educational qualifications: Master Of Computer Applications. 4 Views Upvote

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A big 0 .…. 1 View Upvote

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Kalpesh Katelia Written Jan 17

Education : PGD in Plastics engineering 2001 : Junior Engineer : salary 3000 PM = 36000 PA 2016 : DGM : Salary 1,46,000 PM = 17,60,000 PA 2 Views Upvote

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Naga Rathna, works at Sagacious Infosytems Pvt Ltd Written Jul 25, 2016

My First Job: SEO Analyst ( Oct 2014 to Till Date) CTC When I Joined: 1,05,600 INR(Rs 8,070/- In hand per month) My Qualification: B.Tech( 2014 Passed out) After My First Hike: https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Present CTC: 2.31LPA INR so, My salary raised from Rs.8,070/Month to Rs 18,011/Month. So i can say, 123% hike i got in one year. 18 Views Upvote

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Arun Tiwari, Chief Officer @ Anglo eastern ship management. Written Jul 16, 2016

Since i have joined my first job in 2012. And got promotion in 2013. So my salary was hiked around 800 $. And now in 2016 i m getting 1200$ more than what i was getting in 2013. 22 Views Upvote

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Vaibhav Ahire, works at Hindustan Unilever Limited Written Oct 17, 2015

2006- 4000 rs sack manufacturing 2007 - 8000 rs carton manufacturing 2008 - 1000 carton manufacturing 2009- 16000 rs milton housewares 2015- 55000 rs unilever (All inhand salaries) 7 Views Upvote

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Shikhar Dubey Written Oct 20, 2015

Here are my stats: First Job - 6.2K per month in 2013 last months Salary increased to - 12.5K per month in March 2014 Salary increased to - 25K per month in June 2014 Second Job - 42K per month in December 2014 Third job - 65K per month in June 2015

So that's an increase of almost 105% in 2 years. P.S: waiting for an offer of 80K per month. That would make it to 130% increase in salary. In 2 years. :) 7 Views Upvote

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Answers c ollapsed by downvotes Anonymous Written Oct 9

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Passed B-Tech - ECE (NIT) It was really a bad luck got no ECE job, worst case I also didn’t knew coding at all. (That time coding never interest me) Got ‘D’ grade in C and Data Structures. Rejected in 20+ companies. Finally got selected in second last month. :) Year : 2010 - 2012 Service Company : As Support Engineer, resolving stupid tickets. Night Shift INR 3,50,000 That job didn’t satisfy me :( Year : 2012 -2014 As startup founder. Invested around 3 lakh. As it was a software product in education, having no other option but to start learning coding to build the product myself. Learned Development: HTML, PHP, jQuery, Bootstrap, Entrepreneurship and Business Law, Design, Photoshop INR: 0 :( Lost all earning, looking for some option to feed myself, so started searching for job. Year : 2014 - 2016 Product Company : NodeJs, Java, PHP, GAS, Angular INR 25,00,000 (20 + 5 ESOPS) :) Thought to start again what I have left in 2014, with one of my another genius coworker. Year : 2016 - PRESENT INR : 0 Again Start Up C0-Founder :) Lets see where I am heading 15.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 305



Feb 2011 - 21400(net of taxes) campus placement in a IT firm. B. Tech. From a tier 3 institute Started preparing for CAT in Dec ‘2011 In Apr ‘2012 Left job and started teaching, which I really love, in a school and in a coaching institute. Salary - 20k-25k per month Jun'2014, cracked CAT and joined a tier 1 B-School. Jun ‘ 14 - Jun' 16 salary - 1lpa from internship stipend and part time teaching Jun' 2016 - 1.35L per month (including bonus), around 6 times of pre MBA salary. Am I happy? No. I was happy when I was teaching. I want to build my career in education industry. 11.1k Views · View Upvotes


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Occupation: Software Engineer, working with Ruby on Rails platform Educational Qualification: B.Tech from SASTRA University, India My first job salary is 17 thousand per month. After 3 months, got a hike to 25 k per month. After 9 months made a switch, by completing one year. Now my current salary is 6 LPA, I think I am going to get 45 k in hand after cuttings. This is my first month in current job Wish me luck :) 6.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 81

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Occupation- Software Developer First Salary Nov 2011 - 15k Per Month Salary on Nov 2015 - 3.42 Lakhs Per Annum Salary on April 2016 - 6.5 Lakhs Per Annum Current Salary Sept 2016 - 16 + Lakhs Per Annum Increase - 788.8% Quora Bot Collapsed My Answer - So here are few more details My Qualification - B Tech in Electrical Engineering Now I am a developer. Was hired through campus selection in one of the IT Services majors. How did I get this hike ? Long story short I worked in one of the IT Services majors. Worked for one client for over 3 years. Suddenly the client wanted to pull out their IT operations from my company and wanted to make it in-house. Hence, they hired me (and few of my colleges) as I had quite a bit of knowledge about their systems. My company did put up a fight but ultimately agreed to let us go as they didn’t want to strain their partnership with the client over a few people. 3.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 44

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~350% in 6 years 1. Occupation : Data Engineer with exp in Python and some Big Data technologies. 2. First Salary, Year : 7.3 LPA(CTC), 2010 3. Present Salary, Year : 32 LPA(CTC), 2016 4. Educational Qualification : B.Tech ECE from one of the Top 5 NITs. 8.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 35

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Written Dec 13

First Job (TCS) 2010–11: 3.2 lakh/annum CTC Second Job ( Startup) 2012 -13: 7.5 lakh/annum CTC (6 base + 1.5 bonus) Third Job (Masters Student in IISc) 2013–15: 96 k/annum :p Fourth Job (Silicon valley based startup) 2015 - current: 24 lakh/annum CTC (18 base + 4 bonus + 2 allowances) Education: B.Tech (private college) -> IISc Masters 14.7k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 34



Education: 10th : 86.6% 12th: 65.4% BE (CS): 66.9% Salary: College Placement (Joined after 1 yr of passing due to late joining, Servcice Based): June 2013 - 3.2 LPA CTC Increment after 1 yr: June 2014 - 3.65 LPA CTC 1st Change ( Product Based): Dec 2014 - 6.3 LPA CTC Increment after 8 months: Aug 2015 - 7 LPA CTC 2nd Change (Prod Based): Dec 2015 - 11 LPA CTC 3rd Change (Prod Based StartUp): Mar 2017 - 21 LPA CTC BE was from mid range college from VTU and the job profile is of Test Engineer. Skills: Core Java, Testing and Selenium, Linux. Edit-1: The job location is: Bangalore. 2.4k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 37



1. Occupation: Plant Operations -> E-Commerce Operations 2. First Salary, Year: Rs. 1.56 Lakhs Per Annum, 2003 3. Present Salary, Year: Rs. 56 Lakhs per Annum, 2016 4. Educational Qualifications: Engineer + MBA 2.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote 17



First Salary : 8000₹ /- per month( Oct-2012) Present Salary : 200000 ₹ /- per month Profession : Software Engineer Education : B.Tech ( CSE) from Tier-3 College


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When I joined a Public Sector company in 1995 in Bangalore, my initial salary was around Rs 65000 per annum(After mandatory cuts- Rs 4700 per month). Till 1 year back, my salary reached to Rs 30 Lakhs per annum in my fifth job. I left my last company to do something on my own and spent 7 months without cushy corporate job. 4 months back, I rejoined a small company at a salary of Rs 21 Lakhs per annum. So for me, it is Rs 0.65 Lakhs to 30 Lakhs and downward to Rs 21 lakhs. 2.8k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation: Senior Power electronics engineer (2013–Present) First Salary : 4.5 lpa Second job salary : 7.7 lpa Third job (Present) Salary : 10 lpa Educational qualifications : B.Tech EEE 696 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation:IT EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:MCA FIRST SALATY AND YEAR :2.80 L per annum 2012 2013 feb to 2014 May 8300$ (CAD) per annum Present salary and year: 6.80 L per annum 2016 +2.5 L per annum bonus +9000 Rs monthly expenses Please let me know if this is a average/good/bad increment 2.1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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First job: Rs. 20000 pm, hated the job and left it in 3 months Second job: 11000 pm ,got admission to a top B School, left the job Third job: 100000 pm Fourth : 115000 Fifth: ~ 125000 (govt job, includes all benefits) Sixth: 170000 3k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Shreyansh Patil, The man who couldn't, is. Written Jan 17

I started earning when I sold sandwiches and tea when I was 22. I got my first corporate Job when I was 24. ERP Consultant: CTC 1.8 LPA Went onsite a few times. Now on to my current and second job. ERP Consultant, different product : ~ 16 LPA Im 27 now. Education? I dropped out after 3 years in engineering when I was 21 and completed a degree in IIPM the year they shut down the campus in my city. Funny. 583 Views Upvote

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after 2009 Dec. Started with the salary of 1.2 lacks/year. 2011 Feb joined with a package of 5 lacks/year. Worked hard in the same company for 4 years and delivered the solutions. Management got confidence in My work. Moved to US office for the same project. Now 66,00,000 lacks/year. I am happy :) 510 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Almost exactly 800%! First job - 2002, Salary INR 96,000 per year. Nearly USD 120 per month. Present job- 2016, Salary INR 80 Lakhs per year plus Stock benefits. Nearly USD 10,000 per month. I am an Engineer and an MBA from tier 2 colleges. Have been in sales all my career. 1.9k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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4 folds since the last 9 years. 2007 - 3.0 LPA(1st Job) 2010 - 5.3 LPA (3rd Job, 2nd was a stop gap) 2012 - 8.5 LPA (4th Job) 2015 - 9.3 LPA (5th One - IT Services) 2017 - 12 LPA (6th Job - IT Services again for an ~ 30% hike) https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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I started my professional career with India’s largest IT consultancy firms 7 years back and I can summarize that I am currently earning twice my first salary . I got my first salary on December 2009 as an amount of nearly Rs 30,000 (Monthly) and i drew my last month (Nov, 2016)salary with an amount of Rs. 65,000 . I had acquired bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and have not upgraded my qualification in last 7 years. 4.5k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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2014: Joined as an intern at Google. They provided no salary but food coupons worth 5k and free tea and snacks in the office. 2016: Working as an Ethical hacker with salary 1.2 cr per annum. 217 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Software Engineer - Java Developer First Salary : 2.4 L INR PA HCL Technologies, 2004 Present Salary : 22 L INR PA Dell R n D center. I am going to join a different company for 28 L from next month. I am not completely satisfied with my salary. I could have done much better if I had not wasted my time in bachelor years . Now even if I want to learn some technologies and make a switch, I am unable to find time because of my family commitments ( father of two kids now :)). For my experience people are getting 50 L package. i will keep trying . 1k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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36,600% or 366 times in 13 years.

1. Occupation - Software Engineer (Full Stack) 2. First salary, year - INR 3,000 per month in 2003 in New Delhi, India 3. Present salary, year - USD 1 7K ( INR 1,100,000) per month in 2016 in San Francisco, USA 4. Educational qualifications - B.Tech in Computer Science from a private engg. college with 60% marks. https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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Joined 1st Company in 2010. 1st Organisation

Aug'2010-July 2013-2.75 LPA 2nd Organisation

Aug,2013-June 2014-5.10 LPA 3rd Organisation

June'2014-September'15-8.30 LPA 4th Organisation September'2015-Current-12.5 LPA % Increase in salary since 1st Job-354.54% I am in IT. 254 Views Upvote

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1. Occupation - Sr. Graphic Designer 2. First salary, year - 3,500 rs per month 2006 3. Present salary, year - 36,000 rs per month 2016 4. Educational qualifications - Post graduation diploma in multimedia 70 Views Upvote

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Nitin Gupta, the Product guy Written Oct 23, 2015

Passed out from college in 2011 2011 - 3.25 lpa 2012 - 6lpa 2013 - 8lpa 2014 - 12.5lpa 2015 till September- 14.5lpa 2015 from October - 25lpa + Stocks 300 Views Upvote

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Internet Product Professional 3 Lakhs - 1999 50 Lakhs 2015 BTech, MBA 528 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Fist Salary - Oct 2012 LPA - 2.1 Lac In-Hand - 15,137/- PM Second Salary - Oct 2013 https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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LPA - 3.25 In-Hand - 25,598/- PM Current Salary - July 2016 LPA - 7.42 In-Hand - 50,630/- PM 3.9 Year increased more than 300% 329 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Educational qualifications: BCA Place : Bangalore First job 2010 : 84000 per annum. Second job 2010: 1.5 lacs per annum. After staying in same company for 4 years it increased to 4 lacs per annum. Third job 2014 : 6.5 lacs per annum. Fourth Job 2016: In one of the best Oil Resource company. 16 lacs per annum 1.6k Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Graduated in 2014 . First job : Designation : Graduate Engineer Trainee (June 2104) Salary : ₹ 26000/ month Two years later Designation : Senior Engineer ( June 2016 ) Salary : ₹ 37500 / month 61 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Joined 1st C ompany in 2007. 1st Organisation

Jul 2007 -2.5 LPA 2nd Organisation

Aug 2011- 9.3 LPA 3rd Organisation

Dec 2011 - 13 LPA 4th Organisation Dec 2015(to be joined)-24 LPA I am in IT. 340 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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Occupation: Software Engineer First month’s salary: $120 (on Internship) and then $200/month after 3 months of internship after 1 and a half year: $1500-$1700 per month from my own freelancing business Country: Pakistan 1.7k Views Upvote

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1. Occupation : software engineer 2. First salary, year : 1000 per month , 2012 3. Present salary, year : 100000 per month , 2015 4. Educational qualifications : B. Tech. 98 Views Upvote

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I've been in advertising, journalism and media for over 15 years now. My first job in 1999 got me Rs. 42,000 per annum with zero benefits and bonuses. My current stint gets me about about Rs. 40,00,000 per annum with variable bonuse s etc. I am a college dropout. 122 Views Upvote

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Microsoft Support Engineer First job- sales executive 2009. Salary - 7000. Quit after 2 weeks. Second and third jobs same year. Quit within 1-2 months of joining. Salary below 10k. Fourth job- Jan 2010 - July 2010. Salary - 14k. Fifth job - Aug - Sept 2010 ( 1 month) Salary - 23k Sixth job - Oct 10 - Dec 13. Last salary - 40k Seventh job - Jan 14 (5 lacs) - Aug 16 (9 lacs) Eighth job - Aug 16 - currently. ( 14 lacs) Education - Correspondence bachelor's degree 465 Views Upvote

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Going anonymous for obvious reasons !! Occupation - An engineer. First Salary - $350, 2010 - 2013 Present Salary - $8310, 2013 onward. Educational Qualifications - Engineering Degree. Do the math :) 81 Views


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Year 2009 : Completed BE Civil July 2009 : Job 1 : Site Supervisor (1.44 lpa) November 2009 : Left the job, started coding courses as it was basic interest, had to face lot of hardships as no job, learnt Java, Java Script, .NET, C++, HTML, C#, Python, Ruby Oct 2010 : Joined small term software firm (2 lpa) Mar 2011 : First raise (3.5 lpa) Dec 2011 : 2nd job (10 lpa) Feb 2013 : 3rd job (25 lpa + incentives = 30 lpa) Dec 2013 : Raise (51.27 lpa) August 2014 : 4th job (75 lpa) Present : Continued at same place with raise (97.25 + stock options over 3 years = 1.37 crore ) See my journey till now, the change happened only because I followed my interest rather than just trying to do what I learnt during 4 years of my btech life) 470 Views · View Upvotes Upvote

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I did Mtech from IIT Mumbai. My first salery was 18k/month in oct 2012. My second salery was 37k/month in oct 2013. My third salery was 60k/month in oct 2014. Present salery is 67k/month. jkasjdkassjdkasdskadjaksdjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj Quora needs more explanation so written some. 217 Views Upvote

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Answers c ollapsed by moderation Udaya Sameer , works at Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology and Sciences Updated Aug 8

My first job : Systems Engineer , Infosys Ltd ( 2009 to 2012, resigned as a senior software engineer ) CTC when resigned : 4.3 LPA Present : PhD scholar at NIT Rourkela in CSE, Monthly stipend : Rs.31,500 (some times i do not get stipend for months due to bureaucratic delays ) PHD SCHEME I never knew a decrease in salary growth has a positive correlation to happiness but in my case it surely does :) “Sometimes losing is winning, you should know to leave something. Kouravas won the gamble with Pandavas but lost in kurukshetra, Ravana did not let go Sita and ultimately died in the battle with Rama . “From a telugu movie ( dont remember which one) 92.8k Views · View Upvotes · Answer has very poor formatting t hat significantly distracts from readability Upvote 523



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Its around 800% (From 2014 -2016) 1. Occupation :- Software developer . 2. 3.75 lakh/year 3. Present salary :- 30 Lakh /year Excluding joining bonus and allowance 4. Educational qualification :- B.Tech in Computer Engineering from DTU(formerly Delhi College Of Engineering ) Got placement in Infosys (3.75 lakh) after 10 company rejections. After 2 month of almost around 15–20 company rejection (reaching hr round of almost all company), got placement in Jabong (7.5 lakh).I worked for 9 months in Jabong. Then I sent resume to more than 20 company. Got called from only one company.I converted it and got a package of (15 Lakhs) in 2015 .They taught me everything because I wanted to learn .In this company, I worked for around 2 year .Then I switched the company where my salary is 30 lakh CTC/year (excluding joining bonus and allowance). But I learn only one thing one should be learner and no one should stop learning. Thanks Kazl Chingsubam for correcting my grammatical error. 32.5k Views · View Upvotes · Answer has very poor formatting t hat significantly distracts from readability Upvote 234


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Qualification- B.Tech (E.C) Got placed in mphasis from campus on package of 2.5 lakh per annum with a bond of 2 year,but the joining was nowhere near . So in the mean time i started to prepare for other jobs but was focused on private sector IT companies only.Developed few skills like DBMS and core java as i am electronics background.Tried few interviews also and got placed in EEBS Gurgaon from elitmus on package of 2.5 lakh per annum only but the bond period was only 1 year in that company. Didn't joined that also and continued my preparation for better package and company. Fortunately got placed in Sapient Nitro on package of 4.55 lakh per annum as trainee QA. I got the hike of 80% without even joining the company.Now i am happily working at sapient. I will suggest all of you to keep preparing. Hardwork will definitely take you somewhere. 9.8k Views · View Upvotes · Answer has very poor formatting t hat s ignificantly distracts from readability Upvote 44


Kiri Aakash, Tech Freak..Enterprenuer... Updated Oct 21, 2015

1)Job 1 Started as Sales executive in IT firm(for international sales) date:1st March 2014 Salary:12000 left job on:9th june,2014 2)Job 2 Started as Senior BDE in same field date:23 june 2014 Salary 28000 left job on:15th may 2015 3)Job 3 Started as Senior BDE https://www.quora.com /How- much-has- your -salary-i ncr eased-fr om -your -fir st- job- to- today

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